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Rudyard Kipling . 183

Run of the Mine. 188

Make It Safe. 197

Ballads and Other Verse by Rudyard Kipling. 202

Engineering Department . 206

Ye Old Timers. 208

Coal Here, There and Everywhere. 210

Of Interest to Women. 212

Our Young Women. 214

Our Little Folks. 216

Boy Scout Activities. 217

News About All of Us. 218

The Office Broom. 220

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THE UNION PACIFIC COAL COMPANY

Volume 14 May, 1937

Rudyard Kipling

Poet, Writer of Ballads and Story Teller

T here came from the press a few weeks ago the
autobiography of Rudyard Kipling. Written at
seventy, this book, “Something of Myself, for my
friends, known and unknown,” first appeared for
sale some months after the author had passed away,
his earthly body lying under a simple stone slab
in England’s Valhalla, Westminster Abbey.

Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India,
December 30, 1865, dying in London, England,
January 18, 1936. His father was John Lockwood
Kipling, an artist, and for some years curator of
the Lahore museum in India. Kipling’s mother was
Miss Alice Macdonald of Birmingham, England.
Both sides of the family were made up of high
class, cultured people. Of Kipling it has been said
that “he left no phase of human life untouched by
the magic of his words. He knew men and he knew
mankind.” Not long ago we rode from New York
to Chicago with a man who was then passing
through quite the same experiences that Kipling’s
parents passed tlirough sixty-five years ago. This
gentleman, a native of the Isle of Man, having
served in British customs service in China for
thirty-five years, was returning to the Orient after
leaving his two young children in English public
schools. Such is the tragedy that English speaking
parents whose occupations compel them to live in
India, China and portions of Africa, experience,
if they wish to give their children the educational
advantages they themselves enjoyed. This gentle¬
man told of the sorrow of parting, and the year
long lonesomeness that the children and their
mother, in particular, experience when thousands
cf miles separate the family.

Kipling tells of his parents carrying him to
England when he was but six years of age, the
voyage made on a P. & 0. paddle wheel steamer
from Bombay to. Suez perhaps, thence across the
Isthmus of Suez by train, the first world famous

canal not yet opened to traffic. The school where
the boy was placed was in the suburbs of Southsea,
next to Portsmouth, the old British navy yard,
where many of the wooden ships commanded by
Nelson at Trafalgar were built. The child was domi¬
ciled in a house that belonged to a woman who
took in the children of parents living in India. The
woman’s husband was an old and retired navy cap¬
tain, kindly of soul, who was the only person who ‘ ‘
treated the little alien with any measure of kind¬
ness. Then the old captain died, and the child was
left to the mercy of the woman who, harsh by na¬
ture, was afflicted with the bitter rigidity of a super¬
evangelical religious temperament, which led her
to believe that all humanity was sinful and in need
of constant harsh disciplinary repression. Kipling
speaking of this termagant said: “The woman had
an only son of twelve or thirteen as religious as
she. I was a real joy to him, for when his mother
had finished with me for the day he (we slept in
the same room) took me on and roasted the other
side.”

The boy suffered from poor eyesight and when
he failed in his lessons he said “I was well beaten
and sent through the streets of Southsea with a
placard ‘Liar’ between my shoulders.” When his
mother came from India to visit him she found the
child a nervous wreck, she afterwards telling him
that when she first came to his room to kiss him
goodnight, he flung up an arm to ward off the cuff
he had been trained to expect. Those who have
read the stories of boy schools as sketched by
Dickens, and the gentler “Tom Brown at Rugby”
written by Doctor Thomas Arnold, will recall the
childish tragedies suffered by little ones when
separated from their families, however kind their
teachers and house governors may have been. There
is yet the belief among English families that Public
School (boarding school) life makes for courage

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and self-reliance. Certainly Kipling’s stature was
not shortened by his early experiences. When Kip¬
ling was thirteen, he entered the United Service
College at Westward Ho, near Bideford, England.
This college, then less than five years old, was pro¬
moted by poor army officers for the education of
their sons; seventy-five per cent of the students
born outside of England, most of whom hoped to
follow their fathers into the Army. It was to this
portion of Kipling’s school experience the world is
indebted for the story “Stalkey & Company.”

The originals of “Stalkey & Company” were
Stalkey, McTurk and Beetle. The last named was
Kipling himself, the triple alliance established be¬
fore its members were thirteen. Of his two com¬
rades Kipling said:

“Turkey possessed an invincible detachment
—far beyond mere insolence—towards all the
world; and a tongue, when he used it, dipped
in some Irish-blue acid. Moreover, he spoke,
sincerely, of the masters as ‘ushers,’ which was
not without charm. His general attitude was
that of Ireland in English affairs at that time.

“For executive capacity, the organisation of
raids, reprisals, and retreats, we depended on
Stalkey, our Commander-in-Chief and Chief
of his own Staff. He can le of a household with
a stern head, and, I fancy, had training in the
holidays. Turkey never told us much about his
belongings. He turned up, usually a day or
two late, by the Irish packet, aloof, inscrutable,
and contradictious. On him lay the burden of
decorating our study, for he served a strange
God called Ruskin. We fought among ourselves
‘regular an’ faithful as man an’ wife,’ but any
debt which we owed elsewhere was faithfully
paid by all three of us.”

Kipling’s school days closed early, and so at six¬
teen years and nine months of age, “adorned with
real whiskers which the scandalized mother abol¬
ished within an hour of beholding,” the boy found
himself back in Bombay, an editorial assistant on
the one daily paper of the Punjab, a paper which
must come out “even though fifty per cent of the
staff have fever.” The editorial staff, by the way,
numbered two. Of these days the author said that
the native compositors “followed copy” without
knowing one word of English much as the native
telegraph operators did in old Mexico in our early
days in the Republic. We recall ambitious young
telegraph operators asking us to explain what train
orders and pick-up messages really meant, when
sent over the wires by a suffering train dispatcher
in English. Kipling’s proof readers drank as was
expected, but when they attained the status of de¬
lirium tremens the assistant editor read proof. India
was in the making in Kipling’s day, and the Army

yet dominated all English speaking life in the Em¬
pire as it had from the days of Clive and Hastings.

In 1885 Kipling was made a Freemason by dis¬
pensation, being under age, “because the Lodge
hoped for a good Secretary.” There the youth found
a new world opened to him, the list of members in¬
cluding Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, members of the
Araya and Brahmo Samaj. The Lodge had a Jew
tyler, who was priest and butcher to his Jewish
brethren living in the city. We can recall the stories
of the Masonic Lodge established by Army men in
the dark days of the Mutiny of 1857, as told by our
father, when the Colonel of the Regiment sat “in
the east” with private soldiers, civilians, and tur-
baned Sikhs. It is among the outposts of the world
that this ancient Brotherhood came into full flower,
it was there the bond often meant the difference
between life and death. Kipling tells how he first
came under Army influence in an inimitable para¬
graph or two.

“I got to meet the soldiery of those days, in
visits to Fort Lahore and, in a less degree, at
Mian Mir Cantonments. My first and best be¬
loved Battalion was the 2nd Fifth Fusiliers,
with whom I dined in awed silence a few weeks
after I came out. When they left I took up
with their successors, the 30th East Lancashire,
another northcountry regiment; and, last,
with the 31st East Surrey—a London recruited
confederacy of skilful dog-stealers, some of
them my good and loyal friends. There were
ghostly dinners too with Subalterns in charge
of the Infantry Detachment at Fort Lahore,
where, all among marble-inlaid, empty apart¬
ments of dead Queens, or under the domes of
old tombs, meals began with the regulation
thirty grains of quinine in the sherry, and end¬
ed—as Allah pleased!

“I am, by the way, one of the few civilians
who have turned out a Quarter-Guard of Her
Majesty’s troops. It was on a chill winter morn,
about 2 A. M. at the Fort, and though I sup¬
pose I had been given the countersign on my
departure from the Mess, I forgot it ere I
reached the Main Guard, and when challenged
announced myself spaciously as ‘Visiting
Rounds.’ When the men had clattered out I
asked the Sergeant if he had ever seen a finer
collection of scoundrels. That cost me beer by
the gallon, but it was worth it.”

The depressing drabness and weakening of per¬
sonal morale in the heated season in tropical coun¬
tries is touched upon by Kipling. When summer
comes in India the Government moves from Delhi
to Simla in the hill country. Kipling’s parents went
north, but he in his twenty-fourth year remained
as he stated, to be shaved before he had awakened,
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mouth, the buz of quinine in one’s ears; the tem¬
per frayed by heat to breaking-point, but for san¬
ity’s sake held back from the break; the descend¬
ing darkness of intolerable dusks; and the less sup¬
portable dawns of fierce, stale heat through half
of the year.” When one reviews the work done by
England in India, the roadways and bridges built,
with a system of railways equal in construction
and measure of service rendered to that of any
European nation, all of which has brought about
the elimination of the fearful famines of the old
days, when millions died in one province from
starvation, with food to spare in others, it is only
reasonable to ask why an insect in human form
such as Ghandi should be allowed to voice his
vagaries at all. Those who have read the books of
Dr. Katherine Mayo on child marriage that yet
exists, and the history of “Suttee,” the burning of
the wife on her husband’s funeral pyre, a common
practice in the days of Clive and Hastings, only
one hundred and fifty years ago, a brutality which
England eradicated, can well realize the truth of
Kipling’s epigrammatic statement that England car¬
ried “The white man’s burden” in India and else¬
where. It was Lady Dufferin’s maternity work for
the women of India that inspired Kipling to write
his “The Song of the Women.”

Capetown, South Africa, beckoned to Kipling in
1891 and then he sailed for Australia. There he said
he found himself “in a new land with new smells
and among people who insisted too much that they
also were new. There are no such things as new
people in this very old world.” Next he visited
Auckland, New Zealand, carrying away the face
and voice of a woman who sold beer in a little
hotel. Ten years later when riding in a local train
in Capetown suburbs he heard a petty officer from
Simon’s Town, speak of a woman in New Zealand
“who never scrupled to help a lame duck or to put
her foot on a scorpion.” Out of this memory and
the ten year later conversation came another story,
“Mrs. Bathurst,” and so Kipling gathered the ma¬
terial that entered into the matchless tales he wrote.
On the South Island, New Zealand, mainly pop¬
ulated by Scots “and the devil’s own high winds”
he boarded another small steamer, “among colder
and increasing seas.” Kipling said that after clear¬
ing the “Last Lamp-post” in the world—Invercargill
—“on a boisterous dark evening” he saw General
Booth of the Salvation Army come aboard. Then
he recites “I saw him walking backward in the dusk
over the uneven wharf, his cloak blown upwards,
tulip-fashion, over his grey head, while he beat a
tambourine in the face of the singing, weeping,
praying crowd who had come to see him off.” St.
Paul received his call under an open sky while trav¬
eling the road to Damascus, while William Booth,

the first “General Booth” (born in 1829, dying in
1912) heard the call of God while ministering to
the unfortunate of the London slums.

In January, 1892, Kipling married a young
woman who had lived in the States, the sister of an
old friend, a Miss Balestier. The wedding took place
“in the church with the pointed steeple at Langham
Place—Gosse, Henry James and my cousin Ambrose
Poynter being all the congregation present.” Kip¬
ling said that they parted at the church door to
the scandal of the Beadle, the wife to care for her
sick mother, the groom to attend a wedding break¬
fast with Ambrose Poynter. With tickets secured
from “Cooks” the couple started out, arriving in
due time in Vancouver, where they bought twenty
acres from “Steve” who turned out to be a real
estate sharper, the speculation proving a complete
loss. From Canada they travelled to Yokohama
where they encountered an earthquake, later in the
day learning that the bank in which their savings,
were kept had gone up, leaving the young couple
with what cash they had in their pockets and some
unused “Cook” tickets. “Cook” promptly took up
the tickets and the couple back treked to Canada
across a cold North Pacific sea, their ultimate des¬
tination Brattleboro, Vermont, the grandmother of
the wife still living on the “Balestier” place. There
Kipling settled down to write and replace the small
fortune lost in a far away bank. It was there that
the first child was born, a daughter, on the night
of December 29, 1892, the countryside covered with
three feet of snow, a startling change from the
heated climate of India. Kipling worked hard while
living in America, his comment on the political
life of the day interesting. Of it he said:

“The political background of the land was
monotonous. When the people looked, which
was seldom, outside their own borders, England
was still the dark and dreadful enemy to be
feared and guarded against. The Irish, whose
other cr-eed is Hate; the history books in the
Schools; the Orators; the eminent Senators;
and above all the Press; saw to that. Now John
Hay, one of the very few American Ambas¬
sadors to England with two sides to their
heads, had his summer house a few hours
north by rail from us. On a visit to him, we
discussed the matter. His explanation was con¬
vincing. I quote the words which stayed text-
ually in my memory. ‘America’s hatred of
England is the hoop round the forty-four (as
they were then) staves of the Union.’ He said
it was the only standard possible to apply to
an enormously variegated population. ‘So—
when a man comes up out of the sea, we say
to him: “See that big bully over there in the
East? He’s England! Hate him, and you’re a
good American.” ’ ”

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That those in high places held England in bad
repute is evidenced by Kipling’s story of his meet¬
ing with Theodore Roosevelt. Here it is:

“But how thoroughly the doctrine was ex¬
ploited I did not realise till we visited Wash¬
ington in ’96, where I met Theodore Roose¬
velt, then Under Secretary (I never caught the
name of the Upper) to the U. S. Navy. I liked
him from the first and largely believed in him.

He would coihe to our hotel, and thank God
in a loud voice that he had not one drop of
British blood in him; his ancestry being
Dutch, and his creed conforming—Dopper, I
think it is called. Naturally I told him nice
tales about his Uncles and Aunts in South
Africa—only I called them Ooms and Tanties
who esteemed themselves the sole lawful Dutch
under the canopy and dismissed Roosevelt’s
stock for ‘Verdom der Hollanders.’ Then he
became really eloquent, and we would go off to
the Zoo together, where he talked about griz¬
zlies that he had met. It was laid on him, at
that time to furnish his land with an adequate
Navy; the existing collection of unrelated
types and casual purchases being worn out. I
asked him how he proposed to get it, for the
American people did not love taxation. ‘Out
of you,’ was the disarming reply. And so—to
some extent—it was. The obedient and in¬
structed Press explained how England—
treacherous and jealous as ever^—only waited
round the corner to descend on the unpro¬
tected coasts of Liberty, and to that end was
preparing, etc, etc., etc. (This in ’96 when
England had more than enough hay on her
own trident to keep her busy!) But the trick
worked, and all the Orators and Senators
gave tongue, like the Hannibal Chollops that
they were. I remember the wife of a Senator
who, apart from his politics, was very largely
civilized, invited me to drop into the Senate
and listen to her spouse ‘Twisting the Lion’s
tail.’ It seemed an odd sort of refreshment to
offer the visitor. I could not go, but I read his
speech. (At the present time (autumn ’35) I
have also read with interest the apology offered
by an American Secretary of State to Nazi Ger¬
many for unfavorable comments on that land
by a New York Police Court Judge. 1 But those
were great and spacious and friendly days in
Washington which—politics apart—Allah had
not altogether deprived of a sense of humour;
and the food was a thing to dream of.”

It was only when a British Admiral pulled his
ship between the German battleship and Commo¬
dore Dewey’s antiquated protected cruisers in Ma¬
nila Bay on that memorable morning of May 1,
1898, that America came to think that fair weather
songs of hate were out of place, when the interests

of the two great English speaking nations were at
stake.

Eventually Kipling’s father came to see how the
young couple were faring, later traveling to Boston
to visit an old friend of the elder Kipling, Charles
Eliot Norton of Harvard University, whose daugh¬
ters the young Kipling had known in his boyhood.
Of the Nortons Kipling said:

“They were Brahmins of the Boston Brah¬
mins, living delightfully, but Norton himself,
full of forebodings as to the future of his
land’s soul, felt the established earth sliding
under him, as horses feel coming earth-tremors.

He told us a tale of old days in New England.

He and another Professor, wandering around
the country in a buggy and discussing high
and moral matters, halted at the farm of an
elderly farmer well known to them who, in the
usual silence of New England, set about get¬
ting the horse a bucket of water. The two men
in the buggy went on with their discussion, in
the course of which one of them said: ‘Well,
according to Montaigne,’ and gave a quotation.
Voice from the horse’s head, where the farmer
was holding the bucket: ‘ ’Tweren’t Montaigne
said that. ’Twere Mon-tes-ki-ew.’ And ’twas.

“That, said Norton, was in the middle or late
’seventies. We two wandered about the back
of Sandy Hill in a buggy, but nothing of that
amazing kind befell us. And Norton spoke of
Emerson and Wendell Holmes and Longfellow
and the Alcotts and other influences of the past
as we returned to his library, and he browsed
aloud among his books; for he was a scholar
among scholars.”

Two flying visits were made to England and then
the Kiplings accompanied by Dr. Conland, the Ver¬
mont physician who had ushered the first Kipling
child into the world on that cold December night,
visited Gloucester, Massachusetts, the seat of the
cod-fishing industry, the occasion the annual me¬
morial service for the men lost in the cod-fishing
schooners fleet. Dr. Conland had served as a youth
with the fishing fleet and it was on this visit plans
were laid for the writing of “Captains Courageous”
the best story Kipling wrote while living in Amer¬
ica, one to which millions of Americans old and
young have thrilled. This story with its dramatiza¬
tion of the fisherman’s life and tasks, ranks with
our best classics, the story of the train ride across
the continent truly vivid. This book is to appear in
“picture” form in the near future. Buy a copy for
less than a dollar, read it and see the picture. To
Dr. Conland the author expressed a debt of grati¬
tude for putting him in touch with a “beautiful lo¬
calized atmosphere that was already beginning to
fade.” Eorty years later, while negotiating with a
super-film magnate for the film rights of the book.

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Kipling asked if it was proposed to introduce much
“sex appeal” into the picture;

“ ‘Why, certainly,’ said he. Now a happily
married lady cod-fish lays about three million
eggs at one confinement. I told him as much.

He said: ‘Is that so?’ And went on about
‘ideals.’ * * Conland had been long since
dead, but I prayed that wherever he was, he
might have heard.”

Let us quote another paragraph that brings up
old memories:

“The spring of ’96 saw us in Torquay, where
we found a house for our heads that seemed
almost too good to be true. It was large and
bright, with big rooms each and all open to the
sun, the ground embellished with great trees and
the warm land dipping southerly to the clean
sea under the Marychurch cliffs. It had been
inhabited for thirty years by three old maids.
We took it hopefully. Then we made two not¬
able discoveries. Everybody was learning to
ride things called ‘bicycles.’ In Torquay there
was a circular cinder-track where, at stated
hours, men and women rode solemnly round
and round on them. Tailors supplied special
costumes for this sport. Someone—I think it
was Sam McClure from America—had given
us a tandem-bicycle, whose double steering
bars made good dependence for continuous do¬
mestic quarrel. On this devil’s toast-rack we
took exercise, each believing that the other
liked it. We even rode it through the idle,
empty lanes, and would pass or overtake
without upset several carts in several hours.
But, one fortunate day, it skidded, and de¬
canted us on to the road-metal. Almost before
we had risen from our knees, we made mutual
confession of our common loathing of wheels,
pushed the Hell-Spider home by hand, and
rode it no more.”

This English circular cinder path recalls the one
built by the engine and trainmen back of the Santa
Fe roundhouse at The Needles, California, in our
own early days, and preceding Kipling’s story of
the Torquay, England, path. Tiring of grinding
around the rack on a “Pope” bicycle, purchased in
Los Angeles, one of the railroad men sold out on
the installment plan to “Stovepipe,” a full-blooded
Navajo Indian. Lo, unable to obtain enough exer¬
cise from shoveling cinders in a 120 degree atmos¬
phere, spent a couple of hours of ceaseless grind¬
ing around the course daily at evening tide. This
spectacle appealed to a certain irresponsible and
youthful element, who, anxious to see what would
happen, slipped a section of 12 by 14 inch bridge
timber, much weather stained, across the track at
the point of maximum speed and just at twilight.

The laws of physics worked as usual, “Stovepipe”
was thrown about fifty feet forward, receiving many
abrasions and cinders and we, who had conspired
against the Indian were compelled to chip in to re¬
place the bike. A sympathetic foreman picked the
cinders out of “Stovepipe’s” face with a Barlow
knife, and those who were the real savages were
summarily told to “stay on the reservation” thence¬
forth.

There was a hidden sorrow in the closing days
of Kipling’s life. Throughout his memoirs we find
but one reference to his son John, in these brief
words, “my son John arrived on a warm August
night in ’97, under what seemed very good omen.”
The boy went into the Great War joining the Irish
Guards and was killed. Kipling wrote “The Irish
Guards in the Great War” in memory of his son,
but as we recall reading the book his reference to
his son was quite subdued. That was the last thing
of consequence he wrote. We wonder if the elder
Kipling did not envisage his boy’s possible career', '
when he wrote the chapter in which he mentions
“Roberts,” who as a boyish subaltern served in the
Mutiny of 1857. The chapter, a beautiful one, fol¬
lows:

“I was honoured till he died by the friend¬
ship of a Colonel Wemyss Feilden, who moved
into the village to inherit a beautiful little Wil¬
liam and Mary house on the same day as we
came to take over ‘Bateman’s.’ He was in soul
and spirit Colonel Newcome; in manner as dif¬
fident and retiring as an old maid out of Craw¬
ford; and up to this eighty-second year could
fairly walk me off my feet, and pull down
pheasants from high heaven. He had begun life
in the Black Watch with whom, outside Delhi
during the Mutiny, he heard one morning as
they were all shaving that a ‘little fellow called
Roberts’ had captured single-handed a rebel •
Standard and was coming through the Camp.
‘We all turned out. The boy was on horseback
looking rather pleased with himself, and his
mounted Orderly carried the Colour behind
him. We cheered him with the lather on our
faces.’

“After the Mutiny he sold out, and having
interests in Natal went awhile to South Africa.
Next, he ran the blockade of the U. S. Civil
War, and wedded his Southern wife in Rich¬
mond with a ring hammered out of an English
sovereign ‘because there wasn’t any gold in
Richmond just then.’ Mrs. Feilden at seventy-
five was in herself fair explanation of all the
steps he had taken—and forfeited.

“He came to be one of Lee’s aides-de-camp,
and told me how once on a stormy night, when
he rode in with despatches, Lee had ordered
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the fire; and how when he waked from hadly
needed sleep, he saw the General on his knees
before the flame drying the cloak. ‘That was
just before the surrender,’ said he. ‘We had
finished robbing the grave, and we’d begun on
the cradle. For those last three months I was
with fifteen thousand boys under seventeen, and
I don’t remember any one of them even
smiling.’

“Bit by bit 1 came to understand that he was
a traveller and an Arctic explorer, in posses¬
sion of the snow-white Polar ribbon; a botanist
and naturalist of reputation; and himself above
all.

“When Rider Haggard heard these things,
he rested not till he had made the Colonel’s ac¬
quaintance. They cottoned to each other on
sight and sound; South Africa in the early
days being their bond. One evening, Haggard
told us how his son had been born on the edge
of Zulu, I think, territory, the first white child
in those parts. ‘Yes,’ said the Colonel, quietly
out of his corner. ‘I and’—he named two men
—‘rode twenty-seven miles to look at him. We
hadn’t seen a white baby for some time.’ Then
Haggard remembered that visit of strangers.”

Some years before this Rider Haggard rode with
us in the cab of a narrow-gauge wood burning lo¬
comotive, between Flor de Maria and Toluca, in
Mexico. Haggard in that day wore a shock of light
colored hair and looked not unlike our own Colonel
Lindbergh.

We would like to draw further on Kipling’s life
story but space cries halt. One of the most inspir¬
ing verses ever written are those that Kipling called
“Recessional,” first published in the London Times
in 1897, at the close of the Victorian Jubilee cele¬
bration. Although the Boer War that broke October
11, 1899, was yet two years off, there was trouble
in South Africa. The Jameson Raid, in which our
own great mining engineer, John Hays Hammond,
had a part had taken place, and further trouble
was seen in the offing. Kipling said:

“Altogether, one had a sense of ‘a sound of
a going in the tops of the mulberry trees’—of
things moving into position as troops move.
And into the middle of it all came the Great
Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, and a certain op¬
timism that scared me.”

Speaking of this great poem, since classed as a
hymn, the author further said:

“It was more in the nature of a nuzzur-wattu
(an averter of the Evil Eye), and—with the
conservatism of the English—was used in
choirs and places where they sing long after
our Navy and Army alike had in the name of
‘peace’ been rendered innocuous. It was writ¬

ten just before I went off on Navy manoeuvres
with my friend Captain Bagley. When I re¬
turned it seemed to me that the time was ripe
for its publication, so, after making one or two
changes in it, I gave it to The Times.”

Queen Victoria, however, failed to warm to this
great work, considering it as a potential rebuke to
England’s policy of Colonial expansion. In any
case, knighthood was not offered the author, but
we like to think that the place in which he was
laid to rest with England’s greatest, for centuries
past, represents a mightier honor. Of the “Reces¬
sional” with its resonant lines:

“Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,

Lest we forget—lest we forget!”

we can only say, that this hymn rendered by a
vested choir, following the Cross and the Nation’s
flag in processional, never fails to thrill all who
hold a spark of patriotism in their souls. The Qon-
cluding words:

“For frantic boast and foolish word,

Thy Mercy on Thy People Lord!”

fits much of the world of today. Kipling’s work is
over, the last verse and chapter written, work that
will gain place with the passing of the years. The
author of “Barrack Room Ballads” received the No¬
bel prize in 1907, and the plaudits of millions of
readers, including those living at the outposts of
the world, acclaim his genius and literary greatness.

Run of the Mine

The New Wage Contract

T he increase agreed upon between the Appala¬
chian District operators and mine workers was
put into effect in the Rocky Mountain District on
April 1st, but it is doubtful if the revisions will be
finally written into the Wyoming state contracts
before this issue of the Employes’ Magazine goes
to the printer.

The delay is wholly chargeable to the inability
of the mine workers’ representatives to meet with
the Wyoming operators, due to their enforced at¬
tendance at a District convention, and the prob¬
ability of meeting with the Utah operators before
getting together with the Wyoming operators. This
situation is apparently satisfactory to both parties,
in fact the relations between the operators and mine
workers in Wyoming are such as to admit of both
sides going on quite happily, with or without a
contract.

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The contract period which closed March 31st,
last, was an uneventful one, the most cordial rela¬
tions existing on both sides, no labor controversies
of any nature arising in Wyoming, in fact this state¬
ment can well be applied to the whole Rocky Moun¬
tain Region, a substantial portion of which was
formerly non-union but a few years ago, only one
property (other than wagon mines) that we have
knowledge of not now within the Union, that com¬
pany paying, we are told, the full Union scale.

There was one breach of our Wyoming contracts
that occurred after March 31st, last, which does de¬
serve comment. The contract provided for both par¬
ties meeting in Cheyenne prior to March 1, 1937,
for the purpose of negotiating a new contract. This
meeting was postponed at the request of the officers
of District No. 22. The contract provides that:

“If a new agreement has not been reached
on or before the expiration of this contract,
the mines covered by this agreement shall con¬
tinue in operation pending negotiations, or
until negotiations are discontinued by either
party to the agreement.”

Negotiations never entered into could not be
broken off, and the contract should have been con¬
tinued through April 1st and 2nd, and the mines
should not have been shut down on April 2nd; on
the other hand both parties to the agreement had
a moral and legal obligation to observe same in
every detail. We refer to this situation for the rea¬
son that the mine workers as an organization have
developed a definite inclination to maintain their
obligations in a most creditable manner, and this
infraction, unnecessary and unwarranted, was some¬
what discouraging to the management which has
sought to build up the theory of contract obligation
and continuous operation.

As to the changes in rates made in the Appala¬
chian fields which have been transferred to the Rocky
Mountain Region, same as a whole are in no way
prejudicial. The cost of living is going up and all
mankind seeks a higher standard, a justifiable ambi¬
tion. We believe, however, that the rigid restrictions
placed on overtime and the failure to provide for six
working days during brief periods of peak demand
were mistakes, and as such will create some dissatis¬
faction among the older and more settled class of
mine workers, who will find their annual earnings
diluted by these restrictions. With grave danger of
oil prices being sharply reduced by over produc¬
tion, and without restrictions such as the Guffey
Bill applies to coal being made applicable to oil
and natural gas, the competitive situation coal oc¬
cupies with these two fuels will not be improved, on
the other hand it may become more difficult.

As to rates of pay for seven hours, we are of the,

opinion that such has now nearly approached the
peak. With apprentice rates ranging from a low of
$3.70 for a boy just starting, to a high of $5.84 at
the end of three years; with $4.48 for boys and
rates ranging from $5.44 to $7.00 for outside work,
and with inside rates ranging from $4.48 for boys
to a maximum of $8.20 for men, our mine workers’
rates occupy an enviable position in the wage
world, the weighted average wage all men and boys,
inside and outside, will, including the April 1st in¬
creases, approximate $6.95 for seven hours.

The real trouble with the coal industry lies in its
seasonal variations in demand. The severe over¬
time restrictions and failure to let the mine work¬
ers exceed thirty-five hours in any one week, with¬
out the payment of prohibitive overtime rates, ac¬
centuates this condition. In the long run, wage in¬
creases are most satisfactory when spread over all
men on an hourly or daily basis. We have the fur¬
ther thought that instead of increasing some men
fifty cents and others seventy cents, a uniform in-’
crease of sixty cents would have been more equit¬
able. Living costs bear on all men working in the
coal industry quite uniformly. There must be dis¬
tinctions made between the skilled and the un¬
skilled, but such should not be too broad.

Would Profits Increase Wages?

S UNDAY evening, April 4th, Mr. W. J. Cameron
delivered Number 29 of the 1936-37 Series of
Ford broadcasts over the Nation-Wide Network of
the Columbia Broadcasting System from Detroit.

Mr. Cameron’s address analyzing as it does the
inter-relation of wages, profits and dividends as
related to one of the largest, best managed indus¬
trial corporations in the world, is not only worthy
of reproduction, but careful reading, Mr. Cameron
said:

“We have a question to consider tonight.
From an Eastern state a listener asks: ‘If all
Ford profits had been given to the help, how
much additional would they have received?’

He probably meant ‘dividends’ when he wrote
‘profits’;—for dividends would give him the
information he evidently desires; but to make
sure we shall answer the question in both
senses.

“Taking the inquiry literally, as asking how
much more Ford employees would have re¬
ceived had all the profits been divided amongst
them, the answer is that there would be no
Ford employees, no Ford profits, no Ford Mo¬
tor Company, and no one concerned with this
question and answer tonight. Let us see why.

“Henry Ford began business in a little shop
with 75 men. Himself a workingman, with pro¬
gressive ideas of workingmen’s rights, he in-

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tended to build into his business, as soon as he
could, certain basic improvements in industrial
relations. We have previously told how, as a
workingman during the era of the ten-hour
day, he induced his employers to let him dem¬
onstrate the advantages of an eight-hour day.
But with all his progressiveness, common sense
told him he could not level his business every
Saturday night and start from scratch again
every Monday morning. Anyone can see what
would have happened had he called his men
together every week and divided amongst them
the week’s profit. What would have been
left for experiment, equipment, improvement,
growth? Nothing. The little shop would have
stayed little. Its crude methods would have re¬
mained crude. Its primitive car could not have
advanced beyond the primitive stage. Other
manufacturers, investing their profits in better
equipment, would have made a better product
to sell at a lower cost and so sell more, and in
consequence of a growing volume employ more
men at higher wages. But the little Ford shop,
dispersing its profits, would have drifted far¬
ther and farther behind, grown more and more
antiquated, until eventually it disappeared;—
its 75 men would have been out. They could not
have grown into the 125,000 men we see today.
For profits are what a business grows on. Prof¬
its support a business in the same way that
wages support a family.

“We could answer our radio friend’s ques¬
tion by saying that Ford profits during the last
33 years amounted to 844 million dollars, and
if this had been distributed amongst the em¬
ployees, they would have received that amount
additional—but such an answer would not
mean anything; it rests on an impossible ‘if.
For if profits had not been continuously fed
back into the business, there would have been
no business, and consequently no employees.
But conserved and invested in the business,
these profits did much more for the employees
than tonight’s question suggests; they produced
in wages four times as much as all the profits
amounted to; they supplied the nation with
25 million useful vehicles; they increased those
original 75 Ford jobs to 125,000 Ford jobs,
and made possible 200,000 other jobs in out¬
side industries; and they supported govern¬
ment with 600 million dollars in taxes. The
profits are imbedded in land, buildings, fur¬
naces, machines—hundreds of millions of
which have been used up and have disappear¬
ed. Had profits been dissipated or distributed
either to labor or capital, these tools of pro¬
ductive and well paid employment would sim¬
ply not have existed.

“Taking this question in its proper form—
if all the dividends had been given to the em¬

ployees, how much additional would they have
received ?—permits a proper answer. Dividends
are the amounts taken out of profits for the
owners’ uses. Much of the Ford dividends were
paid out when the Company had stockholders
whose principal connection with the Company
was the drawing of dividends. You will recall
that the stockholders sued Henry Ford to com¬
pel him to pay dividends instead of using the
profits to build better business with higher
wages. After that there were no outside stock¬
holders. However, we asked the auditors to find
exactly the difference it would have made in
Ford wages if all dividends paid out during
these 33 years had been added to wages and
paid exclusively to employees. And this is
what we find: it would have meant a wage in¬
crease for each man of less than six cents a
working hour. Less than six cents an hour for
each man! Had the dividends of the last ten
years been added to wages, the increase would
have dropped to about 3 cents an hour. Thfese
amounts are not very exciting when we con¬
sider that the actual increase in Ford wages
during those 33 years was about 400 per cent.

“Loose and deceptive talk of profits and of
what the wage-earner would have if he got it
all, requires the corrective of facts like these.
The philosophy of ‘taking everything,’ whether
practiced by management or labor, or by both
together, or by government tax collectors, re¬
sults in nobody’s getting anything. That is
natural law. Wealth must circulate. Enlighten¬
ed business is aware of this law and respects it.
Business has not by any means reached per¬
fection, but the better class of business is con¬
sciously and intelligently and continuously
moving toward improvement, and as a result
the circulatory volume is growing fuller and
richer, and the social body is being served with
a more adequate supply of the economic vita¬
mins essential to national welfare.”

The Crime of 1937

T he worst situation that has for some years oc¬
curred within the coal industry, was that of the
recent uncertainty as to continuation of production,
which preceded the Appalachian settlement of April
2nd, last.

For many years the coal industry has neglected its
obligations to that third party, the public, who make
mining possible by the consumption of coal and by
paying the wage, material, tax and other bills that
must be met by the industry monthly. We publish
herewith a graph gotten out weekly by the U. S. Bu¬
reau of Mines, which brings out strongly what was
being done in the way of production prior to April
1 St. and what happened when the public cut off their
orders to burn up large storage stocks, accumulated

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against a shut down that had no justification either
as a threat or an accomplished fact.

During the week ending March 27, the nation’s
production of bituminous coal was 11,256,000 tons.
This figure fell to 7,065,000 tons for the week end¬
ing April 3, and to 5,865,000 for the week ending
April 10, a loss of 48 per cent between the high
and low weeks. When we talk of too many mines
and too many men in the coal industry let us not
forget this indefensible situation. Who makes the
excess mines and man-power necessary?

We do not know what it cost the consumers as a
whole, to indulge in this unwarranted carnival of
coal production and storage with labor and coal
values wasted, but it runs up into millions. It is
quite time for operators and mine workers to stop
“fencing at windmills” and to give thought to their
faithful and perhaps over-complacent “Sancho Pan-
zas”, who pay the bills.

Exposing a Fallacy

T he Ashington Collieries Magazine of Ashington,
England, who, by the way, get up a splendid
monthly for their employes, carried an editorial
under the above caption in their April issue, which
reads:

“The desire for Colonies is one of the Causes
of War.

“In 1914 there were in all the German Colo¬
nies in Africa—900,000 square miles in extent
—about 22,000 Germans, and in other parts

of the country 2,000 more. There were more
than that number of Germans between 80th
and 90th Streets on Manhattan Island, New
York.

“Japan won South Manchuria from Russia
in 1905 at a cost of 300,000 men. Twenty-five
years afterwards only 200,000 Japanese had
settled there—fewer than had died in the war
to acquire it. There are half as many Japanese
in California alone.

“How many Italians can survive the climate
of the East African Coast? Eigures demonstrate
that in so far as the inhabitants of a Country
emigrate, they emigrate not to their Country’s
Colonies, but to other independent Countries
already settled. They do so for the very good
reason that nearly all of the territories that
constitute Colonial Empires are almost unin¬
habitable by White Men.

“A European nation which believes itself to
be over-populated can take all the colonies in
the world and the pressure of its population
will not be relieved.”

Spain and England were the world’s greatest col¬
onizers, Spain sought quick wealth—gold and sil¬
ver. The valiant Spaniard with a nose for the pre¬
cious metals, combed the western hemisphere from
Colorado to Patagonia. Coronado, seeking the fa¬
bled land of Quivera, where gold was supposed to
abound, came as far north as what is now Nebraska.
Spain after seizing two-thirds of the western hemi¬
sphere, withdrew slowly, even sullenly, the Span-

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ish-American War of 1898 closing out Spain’s
claims to the last portion of the new world.

England on the other hand, sought new lands for
permanent colonization and trade purposes, witness
New England, Virginia, Georgia and the Carolinas,
Canada, Australia, New Zealand and southern Afri¬
ca. The Englishman was the original “covered
wagon” land seeker. Those who settled our western
states came almost wholly from British stock, the
original eastern seaboard settlers, English, Irish,
Scottish and Welsh. As the editorial quoted states,
these were countries in which the white man could
live.

India entered by the British race some centuries
gone, presents a different situation. In 1931 the
population of the Indian Empire was:

British provinces . 270,561,353

Native states and agencies. 80,838,527

Total. 351,399,880

Out of this teeming mass of people, the white
British population numbered but 117,336 males
and 50,798 females, a total of but 168,134 souls.
Mussolini need but to have looked at the World’s
Almanac to learn that the white race cannot find
room for expansion in Ethiopia, the climate an in¬
surmountable barrier.

Reversing Natural Laws

iTH the permission of the Chicago Daily Tri¬
bune we reproduce herewith a cartoon by the
famous McCutcheon, published in the Tribune of
April 20th. This gripping presentation shows how
easily it is to climb the “hill of debt” when the
whole nation is cheering the driver on, and likewise
how hard it is to reverse the movement, by trying
to reduce expenses to the level of the national
income.

The public debt issue is not a partisan political
affair, and neither is the President responsible for
the fact that the nation is now spending at a rate
that presages disaster. State, city and county gov¬
ernments, as well as the majority of individuals,
have pressed for appropriations of government
funds until asking has become a national disease.
Let us be frank with ourselves. We have shirked
not only our local governmental responsibilities,
but likewise our individual duties to our communi¬
ties, even unto our own flesh and blood, who have
suffered economic and physical distress. One has
only to drive by the average state, county and city
home for the aged and supposedly indigent, to see
dozens of new shiny automobiles parked outside
while well-dressed and prosperous looking sons,
daughters, sisters and brothers of inmates, make

their weekly call on parents or other relatives, the
burden of caring for same having been gaily shift¬
ed on to the shoulders of government. Frankness
compels the admission that in too many cases aged
parents no longer grace the homes of children, they
just don’t fit in with bridge and cocktail parties.

A word as to where we are going. The President
recently said that public expenditures must be re¬
duced and he has fixed the appropriations for next
year’s relief at $1,500,000,000. Senator Robinson,
administration leader, says that sum might well be
cut a billion dollars. Senator Byrnes, the President’s
“spokesman” on the appropriation committee, re¬
cently announced that he would oppose the appro¬
priation of more than a billion dollars. The “soak
the rich” policy would seem to have some limita¬
tions, the receipts from income taxes including
taxes on “undistributed surplus”, falling a half bil¬
lion behind treasury estimates. Certain legislators
favor higher rates of taxation, others oppose sa,me.
If additional revenue is to be obtained from income
taxation those whose earnings are in the lower
brackets, whose annual earnings are $1,000 or more
will have to make their contribution.

The bonds put out by the government are not
being held by the people, they are held by the
banks, and if the holders become panicky the Fed¬
eral Reserve Bank will have to take them over, is-

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suing green backs in payment for same. If and
when that situation arises, inflation with a ven¬
geance will he here, and a repetition of what hap¬
pened in Germany after the war may prove to be
the only way out. There all values were destroyed,
the nation’s paper currency was repudiated, and the
long uphill struggle under a dictatorship com¬
menced.

On April 19th, Congressman Arthur P. Lam-
neck, Democrat, of .'Ohio, said in part:

ROOSEVELT WILL ASK II /2 BILLIONS
FOR U. S. RELIEF

“ ‘Our plan of spending more money than
we receive in the way of revenue must stop in
the immediate future or we are headed for an¬
other and perhaps worse collapse!’ Lamneck
told his worried colleagues.

“Cutting down expenses or raising new reve¬
nues by new taxes are the only alternatives left
to avert ‘the worst calamity in American his¬
tory,’ Lamneck declared.

“Some of these new proposals and their costs
were listed by Lamneck as follows:

Florida ship canal. $ 265,000,000

Farm tenant hill. 195,000,000

Federal Works program (spon¬
sored by radical group).... 3,000,000,000

Housing Act. 100,000,000

Crop Insurance. 100,000,000

Old Age Pension Grants to

States. 500,000,000

Lemke Farm Mortgage Act. . . 3,000,000,000

Lemke Home Mortgage Act. . . 3,000,000,000

National Libraries Act. 50,000,000

Deficiency Relief Appropria¬
tion to June 3. 750,000,000

National Education Act. 500,000,000

Venereal Disease Control. 25,000,000

Weed Control. 50,000,000

A bill to buy securities from

states, etc. 100,000,000

Flood Control for Pittsburgh

district. 2,500,000,000

Flood Loss Act. 200,000,000

Military posts improvement. .. 34,000,000

Dust Bowl Act. 10,000,000

Roads Act. 125,000,000

Dairy Relief. 30,000,000

Drouth Appropriation act.... 500,000.000

Soil Survey. 200,000,000

Slum Clearance. 1,000,000,000

Livestock Feed. 20,000,000

Total.$16,254,000,000

C,\n’t Afford It, He Warns

“ ‘Many of these projects are probably
worthy, but the nation cannot afford to ap¬

prove any of them under present circum¬
stances,’ Lamneck declared.

“ ‘It is a known fact,’ he added, ‘that the
banks of this country have been selling gov¬
ernment bonds for eight or nine months be¬
cause they have begun to lose confidence in
the future of United States bonds.

‘This condition has caused the administra¬
tion great concern. I do not know whether you
know it or not, but the financing of the New
Deal has been made possible by forcing the
banks to buy bonds. How many times have you
noticed, after a bond sale, that the issue has
been oversubscribed? False propaganda, I say.
because the public has not bought any to speak
of, only the banks bought them because of pres¬
sure by the government and from the further
fact that it was not advisable to make private
loans.’

“Lamneck said it was entirely possible that
the federal reserve system would eventually be
forced to take over all the bonds held by banks •
and would own 35 billion in bonds while cir¬
culating throughout the country 35 billions in
additional paper money.

“ ‘To permit such a thing to happen spells
ruination, and I plead with you while there is
still an opportunity to prevent it to do so,’
he asserted.”

The relief problem of the nation must be put
back in the hands of the states, counties, cities and
towns; the cost must be cut to the utmost limit,
and, as a conscientious priest of the Roman Catho¬
lic Church recently said, it was time that those who
could care for their indigent relatives, harked back
to the command “honor thy father and thy mother”,
taking them out of public institutions thus making
room for the truly indigent. The trouble with our
whole relief campaign lies in the forgetting of the
fact that a small measure of personal economy, the
results directed toward relief, would do the job
without jeopardizing the nation. We do not always
agree with the President, but in this instance he is
right.

The Supreme Court

M ore recently the members of the Supreme
Court of these United States have been
brought out under the glare of the spotlight which
has been turned upon them. Their judicial robes
have been tom from their shoulders, and their al¬
leged shortcomings have been shouted from the ra¬
dio and the rostrum, vociferously and at times
blatantly. Other more temperate objectors have pre¬
sented the case for the prosecution in a more calm
and judicially minded manner.

The Court has also had its defenders, men who

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have felt that this body, while perhaps not always
sensing changing conditions as rapidly as men in
industrial and political life, has done a mighty good
job for one hundred and fifty years. The more
conservative minded critics of the Court, hold that
any changes made should be brought about by con¬
stitutional amendment. The President and his sup¬
porters seek immediate action.

In the last analysis, calm, dispassionate treat¬
ment of a political crisis generally proves to be
the best method. Evolutionary and forward looking
views are always commendable, but too often we
move in things religious, political and material too
rapidly. The world has gained little in the past by
revolutionary action, and history records too many
instances of alleged reforms hastily conducted, that
failed, setting the work of human betterment back,
in some cases for generations. We should not for¬
get that we are living in a speed crazed world,
our emotions carrying us far faster than our think¬
ing mechanism can follow. When an issue of major
importance arises it is well to look backward, re¬
viewing what has happened. To this end we abstract
from the editorial columns of a responsible news¬
paper. The record presented is at least informa-

“Recently, for example, administration lead¬
ers have been saying that the court frequently
denies petitions for writs of certiorari. Senator
Austin of Vermont was not satisfied with this
bare assertion. Upon inquiring about it, he
was informed by Supreme Court Clerk Charles
E. Cropley that in the 1935 court term, which
ended June 30, 1936, one hundred and forty-
three denials for certiorari had been asked by
the government itself, a figure representing 91
per cent of all the cases in which the govern¬
ment has opposed the granting of certiorari.
Austin pointed out, moreover, that year after
year the attorney-general has boasted of the
number of such petitions which his office has
had blocked. The number, in a sense, had be¬
come his ‘batting average.’

“Then there is the charge that the supreme
court has persistently thwarted needed legisla¬
tion, for the most part by controversial 5-to-4
decisions on constitutionality. But an investi¬
gation by the legislative reference division of
the Library of Congress shows that out of
40,000 decisions handed down by the court
only seventy-six struck at the unconstitution¬
ality of a federal law. Only eleven of the seven¬
ty-seven cases were 5-to-4 decisions. On the con¬
trary, thirty-two were unanimous, ten were with
one dissenting vote, fourteen with two and ten
with three dissenting votes. Six of the twelve
laws invalidated since the New Deal were
knocked out by unanimous decisions and only
two by 5-to-4 votes. In two others the vote was

8 to 1 and in the remainder 6 to 3.”

This does not make the case look so bad for the
“nine old men,” a term of disrespect coined by a
pair of flippant tongued columnists.

We like to think that this country of ours still
contains certain elements deserving of our respect,
among which might be mentioned the men who
serve God in church ministry, that fine body of men
and women who make up the Salvation Army, the
thousands of physicians and surgeons, together with
the nursing sisterhood, the District and the Supreme
Courts of the nation, the Interstate Commerce Com¬
mission, our United States Geological Survey and
the Bureau of Mines, departments of our govern¬
ment that have maintained a high standard of recti¬
tude and service. There is a fund of advice in the
railroad crossing sign: “Stop—Look—Listen”.

Productivity In the Belgian Coal-Mining
Industry

iss Margaret H. Schoenfeld of the United
States Bureau of Labor Statistics, is the author
of a paper regarding the working conditions and
productivity of the Belgian Coal-Mining Industry—
this paper published in the Monthly Labor Review
of the issue of March, 1937, gotten out by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Depart¬
ment of Labor.

This paper deserves reproduction in its entirety,
which unfortunately, space prevents. The difficulties
that attach to coal mining in Belgium evidences a
high degree in engineering and mine management
and workmen courage. Miss Schoenfeld mentions
that mules and iron tracks were introduced in Bel¬
gium before 1831, mechanization of coal cutting
largely a post-war development.

Belgium has two separate coal fields, the South¬
ern Basin producing 80 per cent of the total out¬
put, has been in production since the twelfth cen¬
tury. Operations are carried on in old mines where
seams average 27.6 inches in thickness and the
daily rate of output per man averaged but 1,514
pounds in 1934 for all mine labor both under¬
ground and surface. The Northern, or Limbourg
Basin, has been opened since 1908, and the coal
averages 39.8 inches, and the average daily pro¬
ductivity per man employed 2,196 pounds.

An unbroken record of production, employment,
and output per man per day for over a century has
been maintained, the first statistics published in
1831. The soft coal produced resembles the bitumi¬
nous product of the United States and while only
a little anthracite is mined, the physical conditions
of the Belgian mines more nearly resembles those
of the anthracite industry of the United States. It

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is interesting to note that the production per man
per year has more than doubled in the Southern
Basin in the past century, the output per man-
year from 1831-40 was 101.4 short tons. This fig¬
ure was advanced in the year 1934 to 213.8 short
tons—days worked 270.2. In the northern end, or
the thicker field, 328.5 tons were produced per
man-year in 1934—working period 293.3 days. It
is also interesting to note that the largest percentage
of coal produced in. 1933 came from seams between
two and two and one-half feet thick, only 9 per
cent produced from coal ranging from 3.5 and
under four feet.

The average depth of coal mine shafts in Belgium
was 988 feet in 1865, increased to 1,424 feet in
1900, and 1,995 feet in 1928, no check taken
for subsequent years. It is assumed, however, that
the depth figures for 1934 will approximate 2,117
feet. Deeper mines are being worked for the re¬
covery of other minerals than coal throughout the
world, but for coal production Belgium undoubt¬
edly has some of the deepest workings. This factor
alone adds materially to mining costs in cables, all
forms of motive power, such as is needed for ven¬
tilation, pumping, and transportation, in upkeep of
haulageways and galleries, and in timbering. As
depth increases there is greater danger of roof falls,
owing to the overhead pressure, and timbering must
be especially complete. It is also necessary to mine
longwall in deep seams, but this would be neces¬
sary in Belgium in any event, owing to the thinness
of the veins.

Until recently it was commonly felt that the thin¬
ness of seams and the depth and gassy condition of
Belgian coal mines would make it impracticable to
develop mechanized processes to any great extent.
However, the use of mine machinery has increased
steadily since 1923. until at the end of 1934 prac¬
tically all coal produced was cut mechanically and
almost half of the transportation was effected by
power of one kind or another. The thinness of the
seams, the necessity for maintaining narrow work¬
ing places, together with a severe explosion hazard,
has necessitated the introduction of special equip¬
ment, pneumatic machines used to a large extent.

The paper states that steam to generate power
was first introduced to handle water in workings
in Leige about 1722 and in 1840 there were 436
steam engines in use providing power for pumping,
hoisting and ventilation. In the Limbourg area loco¬
motives now provide 43.2 per cent underground
transport, taking the place of cable and chain haul.
We who think coal under five feet in thickness is
difficult of mining can give consideration to the diffi¬
culties experienced in producing coal in Belgium,
an industry that is at the foundation of Belgium’s
industrial life.

Going to Church and Sunday School

A pproaching, as we are, the dangerous season
i when the lure of the automobile, golf, fishing
and other forms of entertainment and amusement
call loudly, the usual disposition to ignore our
Church and Sunday School responsibilities will
doubtless again appear.

“The Witness,” a church paper published in
Chicago, recently referred to a certain strange fami¬
ly whose clergyman made the following comment
respecting their attitude toward Sunday observ-

“The father has never missed Church or Sun¬
day School in twenty-three years. The mother
has had a perfect record for eleven years. A
son has not missed for twelve years. A daughter
has been at the evening service every Sunday
for eight years.

“What’s the matter with this family, any¬
way? Don’t they ever have company on Sun-
day to keep them away from church?

“Don’t they ever get up tired on Sunday
morning?

“Don’t they belong to any lodges where they
get their religion instead of at their Father’s
House, or to any clubs, or to anything?

“Don’t they ever have headaches, or colds, or
nervous spells, or tired feelings, or sudden calls
out of the city, or week-end parties, or busi¬
ness trips, or picnics, or any other trouble?

“Don’t they have a radio, so that they can
get some good sermons from out-of-town
preachers ?

“Don’t they ever get a lot more good out of
reading a sermon out of a book?

“Don’t they ever get disgusted with the so¬
cial Gospel, or whatever it is that their minister
preaches?

“What’s the matter with this family, any¬
way?”

We do not know where this particular family
lives but after reading about them, we were handed
the following prayer prepared by a business man
living in Rock Springs whom many of us know, this
gentleman noted for his consistent support of his
Church and a high regard for the amenities of life.
As this friend of ours is a modest gentleman, we
will not mention his name but we do most heartily
commend his prayer:

A PRAYER WE NEVER HEAR
“Almighty God, as I sit here in my easy
chair this Sunday evening, surrounded by the
Sunday paper and my favorite magazines and
half listening to the radio, it has just dawned
upon me that I have lied to you and to my
neighbor and to myself. I said I was not well

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May, 1937

enough to go to sacrament meeting. This was
not true. I was not ambitious enough. I would
have gone to my work if it had been Monday.
I would have played golf or perhaps enter¬
tained guests at a card party if it had been
Wednesday. I would have been able to go to a
picture show if it had been bank night. But it
is Sunday, and Sunday sickness seems to cover
a lot of excuses. Lord, have mercy @n me. I
have lied to Thee and to my neighbor and to
myself. / am not sick. I am inclined to be care¬
less and indifferent. I am sadly in need of a
conscience that is sensitive to right and wrong.

Rudyard Kipling

W HEN we finished our abstractions from Kip¬
ling’s Biography, published in this issue of
the Employes’ Magazine, we thought it advisable to
draw upon this versatile writer who has gone, for
our monthly stint of verse, and so we also carry this
month “Ballads and Other Verse by Rudyard Kip¬
ling.”

We have heretofore reproduced “If,” “Reces¬
sional” and “The Looking Glass.” Next to the great
hymn “Recessional” the verse by Kipling best
known via the radio is “Mandalay” whose stir¬
ring lines rank in popularity with the hymn.
“Gunga Din,” not so often sung, is another inspir¬
ing composition as likewise the “Ballad of the Boli¬
var.” If we have drawn too heavily this month on
England’s great writer, may we be forgiven.

A Dying Language?

T WILL be something of a shock to Gaelic-speaking
Scots to learn that the University of Oslo is or¬
ganising an expedition to Scotland to record the
various dialects of Scottish Gaelic while there is yet
time. Professor Marstrander and his assistants fear
that the language is doomed and are determined
•that it shall not, like Manx and Cornish, pass with¬
out leaving full documentary proof of its existence.
The Norwegians propose to spend three years on
their work, making phonetic transcriptions and
gramophone records and preparing the way for a
dictionary of Gaelic. They will meet with hearty
cooperation from all in Scotland who can help
them, but their mission will cause some heart¬
searching among the Gaels. Unfortunately, on a
long view, the apprehensions of the Norwegian lin¬
guists would seem to be justified. Gaelic is still
spoken by some 130,000 of Scotland’s population,
mainly in Ross and Cromarty, Sutherland, Inver¬
ness, and Argyll, and in many villages in those
counties church services are held alternately in
Gaelic and in English. But ten years earlier the
number was 150,000, and today it makes a poor
showing in Scotland’s population of 4,500,000. In

Wales and in Ireland the Celtic tongue is in no
danger. Wales boasts 31 per cent of Welsh speakers,
and the Free State claims that 17 per cent of its
citizens talk Erse. Various cultural movements have
lately aimed at reviving Scottish Gaelic, but with¬
out much success. With this warning from Norway
they will doubtless redouble their efforts .—The
Manchester Guardian Weekly.

Keeping up With the Smiths

Even the Jones Fall Behind According to
Government Figures

T he Smiths still lead and you can’t head ’em off.

The task of listing those under the social se¬
curity act shows the supremacy of this family. The
Social Security Board estimates the ten leading
names as follows: Smiths, Johnsons, Browns, Wil¬
liams, Jones, Miller, Davis, Anderson, Wilson, and
Taylor. These ten families will constitute more
than 1,500,000 of the total number of workers who
will participate in the Federal Old Age Benefits.

The board’s wage records office is setting up ac¬
counts for approximately 294,000 Smiths, 227,000
Johnsons, and 164,000 Browns. These are followed
closely by the Williamses with a total of 156,000;
the Joneses, 147,000; the Millers, 137,000; the Da¬
vises, 123,000; the Andersons, 115,000; the Wil¬
sons, 96,000; and the Taylors 81,000.

If numbers for the accounts were not used it
would be necessary to obtain elaborate information
about each worker on every wage report to insure
accuracy in recording wages, the board states. The
use of the number makes the maintenance of such
a vast system of accounts practicable and permits
the use of an application blank asking for only
simple information.

Estimates of the number of persons with these
10 names are based on the assumption that approxi¬
mately 26 million wage earners would participate
in the old-age benefits program. Employers’ appli¬
cation forms for identification number, on file with
the board as of January 15, show that the approxi¬
mate number of persons now in their employ totals
2,024,938.

The post office department’s count of the em¬
ploye applications on file in typing centers as of
Dec. 16 was 22,129,617. Since then a large number
of additional employe’s applications for social se¬
curity account numbers have been received daily.

Unexpectedly Postponed

“Rufus, did you go to your lodge meeting last
night?”

“No, suh. We done had to postpone it.”

“How is that?”

“De Grand All-Powerful Invincible Mos’ Su¬
preme Unc'-nquerable Potentate done got beat up
by his wife.”

May, 1937

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197

” ” ” Make It Safe “ “ “

March Accident Graph

are reported for the month of March. This brings
the total number of injuries to nine for the first
quarter of the year with 118,887 man hours worked
per injury.

The corresponding period for 1936 shows that
there were only three compensable injuries (one a
fatality) with 303,093 man hours per injury, a
decidedly better record in the number of accidents
recorded. While the accidents to date, with one ex¬
ception, have not been of as serious a nature as last
year, nevertheless the trend is headed in the wrong
direction, which means more accidents of serious
nature are bound to occur whenever a large number
of trivial accidents are happening in a mine.

Accidents can be prevented—they don’t happen
—they are made or caused. Many men fail to realize
that they were employed to work and employed to
perform each task as safely as they know how.
Men are not employed by this company to take
chances, yet many will even risk their lives to take
short cuts and break safety rules, which in most
cases have been (literally speaking) written in the
blood of former workmen.

Whenever a workman fails to perform his daily
task in the manner prescribed by rules known to
he safe and efficient and persists in doing so after
being cautioned or disciplined, then that workman
is not cooperating and should avail himself of
work at another occupation more suited to his lik¬
ing as he is not only liable to cause a serious injury
to himself but is liable to do something that in¬
volves the lives of all men working in the mine.

Each individual worker carries or should carrv
his share of responsibility in reducing accidents.

They are entirely too many, probably at least 95%
of which can be prevented by the individual. Are
you doing your share by cooperating to the fullest
extent in their prevention?

COMPENSABLE INJURIES AND MAN HOURS
BY MINES
March, 1937

Man Hours

Place

Man Hours Injuries

Per Injury

Rock Springs No. 4

. . 34,517

No Injury

Rock Springs No; 8

. . 46,417

No Injury

Rock Springs Outside 20,028

No Injury

Total.

. . 100,962

No Injury

Reliance No. 1. .. .

., 39,697

No Injury

Reliance No. 1... .

. . 6,706

No Injury

Reliance Outside .

.. 11,291

No Injury

T otal.

. 57,694

No Injury

Winton No. 1.

. . 50,869

No Injury

Winton Outside . ..

.. 9,695

No Injury

Total.

. , 60,564

No Injury

Superior “B”.

.. 24,948

No Injury

Superior “C”.

. , 26,061

No Injury

Superior “D”.

966

No Injury

Superior “E”.

. , 22,911

No Injury

Superior Outside . .

. . 18,354

18,3'54

Total.

. , 93,240

93,240

Hanna No. 4.

. . 35,903

35,903

Hanna Outside . . .

. . 12,558

No Injury

Total.

. , 48,461

48,461

All Districts, 1937.

. .360,921

180,461

All Districts, 1936.

. . 281,704

281,704

Period January 1 to March 31, Inclusive

Man Hours

Place

Man Hours Injuries Per Injury

Rock Springs No. ■

4. 105,966

105,966

Rock Springs No. 8

. . 133,476

133.476

Rock Springs Outside 57,914

No Injury

Total.

. . 297,356

148,678

Reliance No. 1. . . .

. .116,760

No Injury

Reliance No. 7. .. .

. . 20,755

10,378

Reliance Outside . .

. . 34,552

No Injury

Total.

. . 172,067

86,034

198

Employes’

Winton No. 1. .. .

... 146,538

146,538

Winton Outside . ..

... 29,162

No Injury

Total.

...175,700

175,700

Superior “B” ...

... 76,209

No Injury

Superior “C” . ..

... 79,289

79,289

Superior “D” . .. ,

,. . 2,716

No Injury

Superior “E” . .. .

... 67,165

No Injury

Superior Outside .

.. . 53,928

, 53,928

Total.

.. 279,307

139,654

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May, 1937

Hanna No. 4.

. . 107,954

53,977

Hanna Outside .. .,

.. 37,603

No Injury

Total.

72,779

All Districts, 1937. .

,1,069,987

118,887

All Districts, 1936. .

, 909,280

303,093

Individual Safety Standings of the Various Mine Sections

In the Annual Safety Contest

I N March, five new sections were made, bringing
the total up to 84 underground sections. Eight of
these 84 sections have each had one compensable
injury, a very poor record for the first quarter of
1937, when the corresponding period for 1936
shows only three compensable injuries.

Each district having been made smaller, the Unit
Foreman should be able to spend more time with
his crews and give more time to supervision and
safety in each working place and should, by all
means, better the relatively bad showing made at
the beginning of this year.

UNDERGROUND SECTIONS Man Hours

Section Foreman

Mine

Section

Man Hours

Injuries

Per Injury

R. J. Buxton.

Section

25,172

Injury

John Cukale.

Section

16,415

Injury

Chester McTee .

Section

16,037

Injury

Thomas Whalen.

.... Superior

Section

14,161

Injury

Frank Hearne.

Section

13,986

Injury

Ed. While.

Section

13,713

Injury

Joe Goyen .

Section

13.706

Injury

R. T. Wilson.

Section

13,335

Injury

Stewart Law .

.... Superior

Section

13.279

Injury

10.

W. H. Buchanan.

.... Reliance

Section

12,782

Injury

11.

Ben Cook .

Section

12,712

Injury

12.

Clifford Anderson . ...

Section

12,677

Injury

13.

Joe Fearn .

.Reliance

Section

12,509

Injury

14.

Homer Grove .

Section

12,390

Injury

15.

Roy Huber .

Section

12,173

Injury

16.

Robert Maxwell .

Section

12,012

Injury

17.

Alfred Leslie .

Section

11,984

Injury

18.

George Wales.

.Hanna

Section

11,865

Injury

19.

Joe Jones.

Section

11.718

Injury

20.

Sylvester Tynsky .

Section

11,711

Injury

21.

Arthur Jeanselme ...

.Winton

Section

11,564

Injury

22.

Thomas Robinson.

.Superior

Section

11,536

Injury

23.

Alfred Russell .

Section

11,515

Injury

24.

Richard Haag.

.Superior

Section

11,473

Injury

25.

Sam Gillilan .

Section

11,235

Injury

26.

Nick Conzatti, Sr.

.Superior

Section

11,207

Injury

27.

D. K. Wilson.

Section

11,123

Injury

28.

L. F. Gordon.

.Superior

Section

11,109

Injury

29.

Lester Williams .

.Rock Springs 4,

Section

11,081

Injury

30.

Henry Bays .

.Superior

Section

10,976

Injury

31.

Matt Marshall .

.Rock Springs

Section

10.920

Injury

32.

Anton Zupence.

.Rock Springs 4,

Section

10,801

Injury

33.

Paul Cox .

Section

10,738

Injury

34.

James Whalen ..

.Rock Springs 8,

Section

10,577

Injury

35.

John Zupence .

.Rock Springs 8,

Section

10,570

Injury

36.

James Reese .

.Rock Springs 4,

Section

10,325

Injury

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199

37.

Steve Welch .

.Reliance 1,

Section

10,318

No Injury

38.

Enoch Sims.

Section

10,283

No Injury

39.

Robert Stewart.

.Reliance 1,

Section

10,255

No Injury

40.

James Hearne.

Section

10,094

No Injury

41.

John Reternell .

Section

10,094

No Injury

42.

J. H. Crawford.

.Hanna 4,

Section

10,059

No Injury

43.

J. Bern .

Section

10,031

No Injury

44.

John Valeo .

Section

9,828

No Injury

45.

D. M. Jenkins.

.Winton 1,

Section

9,821

No Injury

46.

Joe Botero . .-.

Section

9,807

No Injury

47.

Evan Reese.

Section

9,779

No Injury

48.

Ed. Overy, Sr.

Section

9,667

No Injury

49.

H. Krichbaum.

Section

9,597

No Injury

50.

Pat Campbell .

.Rock Springs 8,

Section

9,401

No Injury

51.

Andrew Young.

.Rock Springs 8,

Section

9,324

No Injury

52.

Richard Arkle .

Section

9,310

No Injury

53.

Andrew Spence .

.Winton 1,

Section

9,268

No Injury

54.

A. M. Strannigan.

Section

9,254

No Injury

55.

George Harris .

.Winton 1,

Section

9,233

No Injury

56.

Pete Marinoff.

Section

9,233

No Injury

57.

Steve Kauzlarich .

Section

9.226

No Injury

58.

Charles Grosso.

Section

9,198

No Injury

59.

Lawrence Welsh..

Section

9,086

No Injury

60.

John Traeger .

Section

8,988

No Injury

61.

Clyde Rock.

Section

8,981

No Injury

62.

Adam Flockhart.

Section

8,925

No Injury

63.

Albert Hicks.

.Superior C.

Section

8,897

No Injury

64.

Arthur McTee.

.Rock Springs 8,

Section

8,806

No Injury

65.

Grover Wiseman.

.Superior B,

Section

8,260

No Injury

66.

James Gilday .

Section

7,175

No Injury

67.

Harry Marriott.

Section

6,125

No Injury

68.

Harry Faddis .

.... Reliance 1,

Section

6,11]

No Injury

69.

Frank Silovich .

Section

5,222

No Injury-

70.

Ed. Christensen .

.Rock Springs 8,

Section

4,886

No Injury

71.

Dave Wilde.

Section

3,199

No Injury

72.

Thomas Overy, Jr.

... ."Rock Springs 8,

Section

2,751

No Injury

73.

Ben Caine.

Section

2,716

No Injury

74.

F. Cukale .

Section

2,310

No Injury

75.

George Blacker, Jr.

Section

2,149

No Injury

76.

M. J. Duzik.

Section

1,778

No Injury

77.

James Harrison.

Section

12,397

78.

L. Rock.

Section

12,369

79.

John Sorbie .

Section

12,033

80.

Gus Collins.

Section

11,410

81.

Reynold Bluhm .

Section

11,207

82.

J. B. Hughes.

Section

9,821

83.

James Zelenka.

.... Reliance 7,

Section

9,156

84.

Wilkie Henry .

Section

7,903

OUTSIDE SECTIONS

Man Hours

Section Foreman

District

Man Hours

Injuries

Per Injury

I. Thomas Foster.

57,914

No Injury

2. E. R. Henningsen.

..Hanna

37,603

No Injury

3. William Telck .

34,552

No Injury

4. R. W. Fowkes.

.Winton

29,162

No Injury

5. Port Ward .

53,928

TOTAL ALL SECTIONS. 1937....

. . 1,069,987

118,887

TOTAL ALL SECTIONS, 19.36....

. . 909.280

303,093

200

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May, 1937

Monthly Safety Awards

S AFETY meetings for March were held on April 3,
5, 6, 8 and 9 at Hanna, Superior, Rock Springs,
Winton and Reliance. Mines ineligible for safety
awards were Superior “B” and Hanna No. 4. While
Superior “B” Mine did not have an underground
coinpensable injury for March, there was a surface
accident to an employe carried on “B” Mine pay
roll and according to the rules governing the
awards, “B” Mine had to be eliminated from the
drawing, much to the dissatisfaction of all con¬
cerned.

We were very fortunate to have with us at the
safety meetings held at Rock Springs, Reliance and
Winton, Mr. Dan Harrington, Chief Engineer, Unit¬
ed States Bureau of Mines, Safety and Health Sec¬
tion, Washington, D. C., who gave us a great deal

of information concerning the scope of safety work
being done by his department, also some excellent
safety records being made by other coal and metal
mining companies.

Mr. Harrington gave statistical data showing that
coal mining companies in the past five years had
materially reduced the havoc and large number of
deaths resulting from coal mine explosions, but that
very little progress had been made towards the
elimination of fatalities and severe accidents caused
by falls of roof, haulage, electricity and other mis¬
cellaneous causes. He stressed the importance of
each individual to carry his share of responsibility
in the safety movement by observing safety rules
and working safely.

Following are the winners of the cash awards:

Mine

First Prize
$15 Each

Second Prize
$10 each

Third Prize
$5 Each

Unit Foreman
$10 each

Rock Springs No. 4
Rock Springs No. 8
Reliance No. 1

Reliance No. 7

Winton No. 1

Superior “C”

Superior “E”

William Matthews
George Rodda

L. Martin

Sam Casic

Joe Kragovich
Mike Baro, Sr.
Richard Dexter,Sr.

Ernest Anselmi
Mike Lebrech
William Berry

Leo Poljanec

Felix Susie

C. Bertagnolli
Herman Menghini

Henry Walters
Fred Hofeldt

Andy Hohosh, Jr.
William Stockich
Joe Smalley

Joe Jones

Marino Pierantoni

Lester Williams
Arthur McTee

W. H. Buchanan
James Zelenka
James Gilday
Clifford Anderson
Sam Gillilan

Total

$105

$70

$35

$70

Suit of clothes awarded Mike Migiakis at Reliance.

Superior “B” Mine and Hanna No. 4 Mine were ineligible to participate.

More On Goggles

There is shown a photograph of a pair of gog¬
gles worn by Mr. Jess Hester, Mechanic and Lathe-
man at Winton, Wyoming, which again proves the
value of eye protection afforded by goggles.

During the cold weather experienced the latter
part of February, Mr. Hester was pouring some
molten bearing metal in a journal that evidently
contained some moisture, resulting in an explosion
of the hot metal poured which splattered over his
face, causing numerous small burns, but none of
the hot metal reached his eyes.

Picture of goggles showing hot metal splattered
on them, the goggles preventing the metal from
reaching Mr. Hester’s eyes.

Mr. Hester stated that these goggles again saved
his eyes from serious injury and that he had worn
goggles when doing this particular kind of work
long before their use was made compulsory in
shops and mines.

It pays to wear goggles. You may not be able to
see better with goggles but you may see a lot
LONGER.

March Injuries

Warren J. Norvell, American, age 61, bathhouse
attendant, Superior outside, bruise and strain
of right hip. Period of disability undetermined.

Mr. Norvell was standing on the second rung
of a six-foot ladder in the shower room of a
bathhouse attempting to unscrew a shower head
when the ladder slipped on the concrete floor
and both he and the ladder fell to the floor.
This accident was avoidable. Ladders are a
known hazard and each workman using them
must make sure they are securely set before at¬
tempting to work on them.

Robert Cummings, American, age 48, driller, Han¬
na No. 4 Mine, Section No. 9. Fracture of
right arm at elbow. Period of disability unde¬
termined.

May, 1937

Employes’ Magazine

201

Robert was drilling a short hole to set a
grip or jack for the thread bar when the drill
struck a crevice, jerking the drilling machine
out of his hands and entangling his arm in the
drilling machine cable. This accident was avoid¬
able. Drillers should place cable so that they
would not become entangled in it whenever the
machine is jerked out of their hands.

Beware of Spitting Blow Torches
Around Electrical Equipment

“An accident occurred when a blow torch, spit¬
ting because it was not fully heated, was hauled up
on a hand line into a power substation structure.
When the man in the structure took hold of the
torch handle and swung it around into position, it
shot out a stream of vapor and flame in the direc¬
tion of a 66,000 volt bus bar. There was a flash¬
back from the live terminal and in an instant two
men were dead and a portion of the substation
structure was wrecked.

“Later on, a blow torch was tested under the
same conditions and an arc approximately 36
inches long was produced. It is suggested that this
was due to hot air and unburned gasoline conduct¬
ing electric current through the path over which the
flame of the torch had traveled .”—National Safety
Council News Letter.

Bulletin Boards

STATEMENT SHOWING NUMBER OF CALEN¬
DAR DAYS WORKED BY THE VARIOUS
DEPARTMENTS, OR MINES, SINCE
THE LAST COMPENSABLE
INJURY

Figures to March 31, 1937

Underground
Employes
Calendar Days

Rock Springs No. 4 Mine. 40

Rock Springs No. 8 Mine. 50

Reliance No. 1 Mine. 102

Reliance No. 7 Mine. 36

Winton No. 1 Mine. 77

Winton No. 3 Mine. 234

Superior “B” Mine. 104

Superior “C” Mine. 40

Superior “E” Mine. 131

Hanna No. 4 Mine. 9

Outside
Employes
Calendar Days

Rock Springs No. 4 Tipple.2,346

Rock Springs No. 8 Tipple. 926

Reliance Tipple. 762

Winton Tipple. 2,546

Superior “B” and “E” Tipple.1,902

Superior “C” Tipple.2,820

Hanna No. 4 Tipple. 183

General Outside
Employes
Calendar Days

Rock Springs.;.1,658

Reliance ..1,930

Winton .2,143

Superior . 14

Hanna. 518

Keep Your Name Off This List

The following men, on account of their sustaining
a compensable injury during the past three months,'
are ineligible to participate in the awarding of the
Grand Prize, a new five-passenger automobile,
which will be awarded at the end of the year 1937.

J. E. Jones, Rock Springs.

Marko Sikich, Rock Springs.

Mike Balen, Reliance.

Z. A. Portwood, Reliance.

Stewart Tait, Winton.

Gus Ambus, Superior.

W. J. Norvell, Superior.

George Staurakakis, Hanna.

Robert Cummings, Hanna.

Keep your name off this list by not having an
accident. It may pay you handsomely.

UNSAFE TOOLS HAVE PUT
MANY A STRONG MAN
FLAT ON HIS BACK

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Ballads and Other Verse by Rudyard Kipling

MANDALAY

“By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin’ eastward to
the sea,

There’s a Burma girl a-settin’, and I .know she
thinks o’ me;

For the wind is in the palm-trees, and the temple-
bells they say:

‘Come you back, you British soldier; come you
back to Mandalay!’

“Come you back to Mandalay,

Where the old Flotilla lay:

Can’t you ’ear their paddles chunkin’ from
Rangoon to Mandalay?

On the road to Mandalay,

Where the flyin’-fishes play,

An’ the dawn comes up like thunder outer
China ’crost the Bay!

“ ‘Er petticoat was yaller an’ ’er little cap was green
An’ ’er name was Supi-yaw-lat—jes’ the same as
Theebaw’s Queen,

“An’ I seed her first a-smokin’ of a whackin’ white
cheroot,

An’-a-wastin’ Christian kisses on an ’eathen idol’s
foot:

“Bloomin’ idol made o’ mud—

What they called the Great Gawd Budd—
Plucky lot she cared for idols when I kissed
’er where she stud!

On the road to Mandalay, etc.

“When the mist was on the rice-fields an’ the sun
was droppin’ slow.

She’d git ’er little banjo an’ she’d sing ‘Kulla-
lo-lo!’

With ’er arm upon my shoulder an’ ’er cheek agin
my cheek

We useter watch the steamers an’ the hathis pilin’
teak.

“Elephints a-pilin’ teak
In the sludgy, squdgy creek.

Where the silence ’ung that ’eavy you was
’arf afraid to speak!

On the road to Mandalay, etc.

“But that’s all shove be’ind me—long ago an’ fur
away.

An’ there ain’t no ‘busses runnin’ from the Bank
to Mandalay;

An’ I’m learnin’ ’ere in London what the ten-year
soldier tells:

‘If you’ve ’card the East a-callin’, you won’t never
’eed naught else.’

“No! you won’t ’eed nothin’ else
But them spicy garlic smells.

An’ the sunshine an’ the palm-trees an’ the
tinkly temple-bells;

On the road to Mandalay, etc.

“I am sick o’ wastin’ leather on these gritty pavin’-
stones.

An’ the blasted Henglish drizzle wakes the fever
in my hones;

Tho’ I walks with fifty ’ousemaids outer Chelsea
to the Strand,

An’ they talks a lot o’ lovin’ but wot do they
understand?

“Beefy face an’ grubby ’and—

Law! wot do they understand?

I’ve a neater, sweeter maiden in a clea'ner,
greener land!

On the road to Mandalay, etc.

“Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best
is like the worst,

Where there aren’t no Ten Commandments an’ a
man can raise a thirst;

For the temple-bells are callin’, and it’s there that
I would be—

By the old Moulmein Pagoda, looking lazy at
the sea;

“On the road to Mandalay,

Where the old Flotilla lay,

With our sick beneath the awnings when we
went to Mandalay!

On the road to Mandalay,

Where the flyin’-fishes play,

An’ the dawn comes up like thunder outer
China ’crost the Bay! ”

GUNGA DIN

“You may talk o’ gin and beer
When you’re quartered safe out ’ere,

An’ you’re sent to penny-fights an’ Aldershot it;
But when it comes to slaughter
You will do your work on water.

An’ you’ll lick the bloomin’ boots of ’im that’s
got it, _

Now in Injia’s sunny clime.

Where I used to spend my time
A-servin’ of ’Er Majesty the Queen,

Of all them blackfaced crew

The finest man I knew

Was our regimental bhisti, Gunga Din.

He was ‘Din! Din! Din!

You limping lump o’ brick-dust, Gunga Din!

Hi! slippery hitherao!

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Water! get it! Panee lao!^

You squidgy-nosed old idol, Gunga Din.’

“The uniform ’e wore
Was nothin’ much before
An’ rather less than ’arf o’ that be’ind,

For a piece o’ twisty rag
An’ a goatskin water-bag
Was all the field-equipment ’e could find.

When the sweatin’ troop-train lay
In a sidin’ through'the day,

Where the ’eat would make your bloomin’ eye¬
brows crawl.

We shouted, ‘Harry By!’^

Till our throats were bricky-dry.

Then we wopped ’im cause ’e couldn’t serve us all.
It was ‘Din! Din! Din!

You ’eathen, where the mischief ’ave you
been?

You put some juldee® in it
Or ’Ill marrow you this minute^

If you don’t fill up my helmet, Gunga Din.’

“ ’E would dot an’ carry one
Till the longest day was done;

An’ ’e didn’t seem to know the use o’ fear.

If we charged or broke or cut.

You could bet your bloomin’ nut,

’E’d be waiting fifty paces right flank rear.

With ’is mussick® on ’is back,

“ ’E would skip with our attack.

An’ watch us till the bugles made ‘Retire,’

An’ for all ’is dirty ’ide
’E was white, clear white, inside
When ’e went to tend the wounded under fire!

It was ‘Din! Din! Din!’

With the bullets kickin’ dust-spots on the green.
When the cartridges ran out,

You could hear the front-files shout,

‘Hi! ammunition-mules an’ Gunga Din!’

“I shan’t forgit the night
When I dropped be’ind the fight
With a bullet where my belt-plate should ’a’ been.
I was chokin’ mad with thirst,

An’ the man that spied me first
Was our good old grinnin’, gruntin’ Gunga Din.

’E lifted up my ’ead,

An’ he plugged me where I bled.

An’ ’e guv me ’arf-a-pint o’ water-green:

It was crawlin’ and it stunk,

But of all the drinks I’ve drunk.

I’m gratefullest to one from Gunga Din.

It was ‘Din! Din! Din!

Ere’s a beggar with a bullet through ’is spleen;
’E’s cbawin’ up the ground,

iBring water swiftly.

2Mr. Atkins’ equivalent for “0 brother.”

3Be quick.

■*Hit you.

6'Water skin.

An’ ’e’s kickin’ all around:

For Gawd’s sake git the water, Gunga Din!’

“ ’E carried me away
To where a dooli lay.

An’ a bullet come an’ drilled the beggar clean.

’E put me safe inside.

An’ just before ’e died:

‘I hope you liked your drink,’ sez Gunga Din.

So I’ll meet ’im later on
At the place where ’e is gone—

Where it’s always double drill and no canteen;
’E’ll be squattin’ on the coals,

Givin’ drink to poor damned souls.

An’ I’ll get a swig in hell from Gunga Din!

Yes, ‘Din! Din! Din!

You Lazarushian-leather Gunga-Din!

Though I’ve belted you and flayed you
By the living Gawd that made you.

You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din!’ ”

THE BALLAD OF THE “BOLIVAR”

“Seven men from all the world, hack to Docks
again.

Rolling down the Ratcliffe Road drunk and raising

Give the girls another drink ’fore we sign away —
JFe that took the ‘Bolivar out across the Bay!

“We put out from Sunderland loaded down with
rails;

We put back to Sunderland ’cause our cargo
shifted;

We put out from Sunderland—met the winter
gales—

Seven days and seven nights to the Start we drifted.

“Racketing her rivets loose, smoke-stack white as
snow.

All the coals adrift a deck, half the rails below
Leaking like a lobster-pot, steering like a dray—
Out we took the ‘Bolivar,’ out across the Bay!

“One by one the Lights came up, winked and let
us 'by;

Mile by mile we waddled on, coal and fo’c’sle
short;

Met a blow that laid us down, heard a bulk-head
fly;

Let The Wolf behind us with a two foot-list to port.

“Trailing like a wounded duck, working out her
soul;

Clanging like a smith-shop after every roll;

Just a funnel and a mast lurching through the
spray—

So we threshed the ‘Bolivar’ out across the Bay!

“Felt her hog and felt her sag, betted when she’d
break;

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Wondered every time she raced if she’d stand the
shock;

Heard the seas like drunken men pounding at her
strake;

Hoped the Lord ’ud keep his thumb on the
plummer-block.

Banged against the iron decks, bilges choked
with coal;

“Flayed and frozen foot and hand, sick of heart
and soul;

’Last we prayed she’d buck herself into Judgment
Day—

Hi! we cursed the ‘Bolivar’ knocking round the
Bay!

“Oh! her nose flung up to sky, groaning to be still—

Up and down and back we went, never time for
breath;

Then the money paid at Lloyd’s caught her by
the heel,

And the stars ran round and round dancin’ at our
death.

“Aching for an hour’s sleep, dozing off between;

Heard the rotten rivets draw when she took it
green;

Watched the compass chase its tail like a cat at
play—

That was on the ‘Bolivar,’ south across the Bay.

“Once we saw between the squalls, lyin’ head to
swell—

Mad with work and weariness, wishin’ they was

Some damned Liner’s lights go by like a grand
hotel;

Cheered her from the ‘Bolivar,’ swampin’ in the
sea.

“Then a greyback cleared us out, then the skipper
laughed;

‘Boys, the wheel has gone to Hell—rig the
winches aft!

‘Yoke the kicking rudder-head—get her under
way!’

So we steered her, pulley-haul, out across the
Bay!

Just a pack o’ rotten plates puttied up with tar,

In we came, an’ time enough ’cross Bilbao Bar.

Overloaded, undermanned, meant to founder, we

Euchred God Almighty’s storm, bluffed the Eternal
Sea!

“Seven men from all the world, hack to town again.

Rollin' down the Ratcliffe Road drunk and raising
Cain;

Seven men from out of Hell. Ain’t the owners gay.

’Cause we took the ‘Bolivar safe across the Bay?”

THE FALL OF JOCK GILLESPIE

“This fell when dinner-time was done—

Twixt the first an’ the second rub—

That oor mon Jock cam’ hame again
To his rooms ahint the Club.

“An’ syne he laughed, an’ syne he sang.

An’ syne we thoct him fou.

An’ syne he trumped his partner’s trick.

An’ garred his partner rue

“Then up and spake an elder mon.

That held the Spade its Ace—

‘God save the lad! Whence comes the lick
That wimples on his face?’

“An’ Jock he sniggered, an’ Jock he smiled.

An’ ower the card-brim wunk;

‘I’m a’ too fresh fra’ the stirrup-peg.

May be that I am drunk.’

“ ‘There’s whusky brewed in Galashiels,

An’ L. L. L. forbye;

But never liquor lit the low

That keeks fra’ oot your eye.

“ ‘There’s a thrid o’ hair on your dress-coat breast,
Aboon the heart a wee?’

‘Oh! that is fra’ the lang-haired Skye
That slobbers ower me.’

“ ‘Oh! lang-haired Skyes are lovin’ beasts.

An’ terrier dogs are fair.

But never yet was terrier born
Wi’ ell-lang gowden hair.’

“ ‘There’s a smirch o’ pouther on your breast
Below the left lappel?’

‘Oh! that is fra’ my auld cigar,

Whenas the stump-end fell.’

“ ‘Mon Jock, ye smoke the Trichi coarse,

For ye are short o’ cash,

An’ best Havanas couldna leave
Sae white an’ pure an ash.

“ ‘This nicht ye stopped a story braid.

An’ stopped it wi’ a curse—

Last nicht ye told that tale yoursel.

An’ capped it wi’ a worse!

“‘Oh! we’re no fou! Oh! we’re no fou!

But plainly we can ken
Ye’re failin’, failin’, fra’ the band
O’ cantie single men!’

“An’ it fell when sirrw-shaws were sere.

An’ the nichts were lang and mirk.

In braw new breeks, we a gowden ring,

Oor Jockie gaed to the Kirk.”

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OVERLAND MAIL
(Foot-Service to the Hills)

“In the name of the Empress of India, make way,
0 Lords of the Jungle, wherever you roam.
The woods are astir at the close of the day—

We exiles are waiting for letters from Home.
Let the robber retreat—let the tiger turn tail—

In the Name of tlje Empress, the Overland Mail!

'“With a jingle of bells as the dusk gathers in,

He turns to the foot-path that heads up the
hill—

The Lags on his back and a cloth round his chin.
And tucked in his waist-belt, the Post Office
bill:

‘Despatched on this date, as received by the rail,
Per runner, two bags of the Overland Mail.’

“Is the torrent in spate? He must ford it or swim.
Has the rain wrecked the road ? He must climb
by the cliff.

Does the tempest cry ‘Halt’? What are tempests
to him?

The Service admits not a ‘but’ or an ‘if’.

While the breath’s in his mouth, he must bear
without fail,

In the Name of the Empress, the Overland Mail.

“From aloe to rose-oak, from rose-oak to fir.
From level to upland, from upland to crest.
From rice-field to rock-ridge, from rock-ridge to
spur,

Fly the soft sandalled feet, strains the brawny
brown chest.

From rail to ravine—to the peak from the vale—
Up, up through the, night goes the Overland Mail.

“There’s a speck on the hillside, a dot on the road—
A jingle of bells on the foot-path below—
There’s a scuffle above in the monkey’s abode—
The world is awake, and the clouds are aglow.
For the great Sun himself must attend to the hail:
‘In the name of the Empress, the Overland Mail!’ ”

American Red Cross

The Annual Convention of the above will be held
in beautiful Memorial Continental Hall, Washing¬
ton, D. C., on May 10, 11, 12 and 13.

The 1936 Roll Call produced some six hundred
thousand more members than those enrolled the
previous year.

The first showing of the 1937 flood motion pic¬
tures will be presented, depicting the work of the
organization in the Ohio and Mississippi basins in
relief, rescue and rehabilitation during the greatest
crisis the Red Cross has faced since the World War.

Oh/ What’s the Use?

A young man ran for the legislature of Illinois
and was badly swamped.

He next entered business, failed, and spent sev¬
eral years of his life paying up the debts of a
worthless partner.

He was in love with a beautiful young woman,
to whom he was engaged—then she died.

Entering politics again, he ran for Congress and
was badly defeated. He then tried to get an appoint¬
ment to the United States land office, but failed.

He became a candidate for the U. S. Senate, and
was defeated.

Then he became a candidate for the vice-presi¬
dency and was once more defeated.

One failure after another—bad failures—great
setbacks. Then he became one of the greatest men
of America—Abraham Lincoln.

Who says, “Oh, what’s the use?”

Obituaries

RT. REV. NATHANIEL S. THOMAS

Rt. Rev. Nathaniel S. Thomas, age 69, an early
Bishop of the Wyoming Diocese of the Episcopal
Church, died at his home in Palm Beach, Florida,
on March 31. His consecration was on May 6, 1909,
and he resigned in 1927. A man of extraordinary
culture, intellect and attainments, most popular in
church circles, his legion of friends and acquaint¬
ances regret his passing. The remains were interred
at Santa Barbara, California.

WILLIAM R. GILPIN

William R. Gilpin, General Foreman, Union
Pacific Railroad Company here for many years
past, died after a lingering illness on March 31 at
his residence.

Born in Torquay, England, October 4, 1869, he
came to the United States in his twentieth year, se¬
curing employment in Colorado, moving to Evans¬
ton in 1890 where he engaged with the Union Pacific
as Fireman, Engineer and Traveling Engineer. Later
he served as Air Brake Instructor, General Fore¬
man, etc.

Mr. Gilpin took an active interest in municipal
and school affairs having been a councilman at
Evanston 18 years, also as President of the local
council for several years, as well as being on the
School Board here a long term. He was greatly in¬
terested in athletics, was an ardent fisherman, hav¬
ing acted as Secretary-Treasurer of the Sweetwater
County Sportsman’s Association.

His widow, three sons and a daughter survive,
and to them goes the heartfelt sympathy of the com¬
munity.

Services were held in the High School Auditori¬
um on Sunday, April 4th, interment being in River-
view Cemetery at Green River, Wyoming.

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Engineering Department

The Animal Life of the Triassic Era

Data Collected by C. E. Swann.

ARTICLE NO. 24 OF A SERIES ON GEOLOGY
Fossil Tracks and Trails^'

Part II.

RACKS attributed to dinosaurs have been found
in many places in North America besides the
Connecticut Valley, but these more or less iso¬
lated finds have not attracted sufficient -attention
from scientists to arouse a general interest in
them. That the nation’s Capitol and its vicinity
were the stamping grounds of dinosaurs is shown
not only by the finding of their bones within
the District of Columbia, but also by a more
recent discovery of numerous fossil footprints in
the Triassic rocks near Leesburg, Virginia. In re¬
modeling the President Monroe house in Loudoun
County, Mr. F. P. Littleton, the present owner, de¬
sired to match the old flagstones in the porch floors,
and, after some search, found the quarry from
which the slabs had been obtained. The new flags
from this quarry bore footprints which the paleon¬
tologists of the National Museum pronounced to
be those of dinosaurs and of the same geologic age
as the footprints found in the Connecticut Valley.
Mr. Littleton made a special search for slabs con¬
taining well-preserved series of tracks, with the re¬
sult that the floors of his enlarged porches are
unique in being adorned with fossil footprints,
many of them in consecutive series, showing the
course and stride of the creatures that made them.

Another such discovery has been called to the
attention of the Smithsonian Institute by Mr. George
P. Bessent, who found thirteen footprints made by
a single animal in the Glen Rose formation near
the Texas town of that name. Each track measures
fourteen inches in length and thirteen and a half
inches in width. The prints of the toes are sunk
three inches deep into the rock, indicating the soft¬
ness of the surface when the animal strode over it.
The impressions are approximately forty-eight
inches apart, so that in thirteen steps the animal
covered a distance of fifty-two feet. Undoubtedly
these tracks were made by a large three-toed bi¬
pedal dinosaur, but the evidence as to whether it
was herbivorous or carnivorous is not altogether
clear. As in many other instances, no fossil bones
of any animal capable of making such tracks have
been found in rocks of the same age in Texas, so
that we can expect no help from that source in solv¬
ing this riddle of the rocks. This series of tracks,
xFrom Smithsonian Scientific Series.

however, illustrates how footprints often contribute
to a better understanding of the attitude assumed
by extinct animals. The deep imprints show that,
in walking, one foot was placed in front of the
other, forming a single line of tracks, after the
manner of walking birds. The absence of impres¬
sions of the fore feet and the lack of a furrow
such as would be made by a dragging tail give di¬
rect evidence that only the hind legs were used in
walking, and that the tail was held free from the
ground, its weight counterbalancing that of the
body.

Fossil tracks found near Hastings, England, and
ascribed to the dinosaur Iguanodon, have been
traced for seventy-five feet, and show characteristics
similar to those of the Glen Rose formation, except
that the feet do not point straight forward, but are
pigeon-toed (see sketch). Dinosaur tracks found in
the coal mines of Utah have the same peculiarity.
These, by the way, are the largest three-toed tracks
yet found in America, some of them measuring-
thirty inches in length and thirty-one inches in
breadth. The stride of the animal which made them
was about nine feet. In these tracks, the imprints-
themselves are not preserved, but only their natural
casts. It seems that the animal walked over the
soft earth which immediately overlay a peat bed,
and that this earth was in turn covered by a thick
layer of sand, which filled in the deep footprints.
In the ages that followed, the sand became con¬
solidated into the heavy band of sandstone that
we see today. When coal is mined out, the soft, un¬
consolidated layer containing the tracks cleaves-
from the under side of the sandstone and leaves
the natural casts of the tracks protruding below the
general level of the sandstone roof of the mine.,
it is thus that the trail of the dinosaur has been
revealed to us of the present day.

The great antiquity of fossil footprints is no¬
where more clearly and convincingly demonstrated
than in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, in Ari¬
zona. This area, now set aside as a National Park,
was in several periods, each separated from the
next by millions of years, inhabited by large and
varied assemblages of animals, none of which re¬
sembled any of the creatures living there today.
Fossil tracks and trails preserved at levels hundreds
of feet apart in the rock walls of the canyon fur¬
nish the evidence for this statement. At the time
the tracks were made there was no Grand Canyon,
and the present rocks were loose sand and mud.
In the millions upon millions of years that fol¬
lowed after the earliest animals left their footprints
in the soft surface materials, other sediments ac-

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cumulated above them in successive strata, some of
which recorded the footprints of new animals that
had arisen to replace the old. Stratum piled upon
stratum, until the mass was hundreds of feet thick.
Its great weight, aided by the natural cement in
the sand and mud, consolidated the underlying
layers into sandstones and shales. Thus, the ele¬
ments carved out the Grand Canyon and the an¬
cient tracks came to light.

These footprints have recently been found at
many places in the canyon, but those most accessi¬
ble and extensive in occurrence are crossed by or
lie immediately off the famous Hermit and Bright
Angel trails. Discovered first by Professor Charles
Schuchert in 1915, and described in part by Pro¬
fessor Lull, the Grand Canyon tracks received little
further attention until ten years later, when a large
collection of them was made for the National Mu¬
seum. These tracks, together with collections of
subsequent years, have been described by the writer
(Prof. Gilmore). Today no less than twenty-seven
genera and thirty-three species of fossil tracks are
known from this one area. They come from three
distinct formations of the Permian epoch, which,
named in descending order, are known as the Coco¬
nino, Hermit and Supai formations. The tracks are
found in three horizons, the first at 900 to 1,080
feet, the second at 1,350 to 1,400 feet, and the third
at 1,800 to 1,850 feet below the top of the canyon
wall. This is probably the only place in the world
where the fossil tracks of three successive groups
of animal life separated by such great geologic in¬
tervals, can be found. The Park Service has un¬
earthed at the side of the Hermit Trail, where all
who pass may see it, a slab of rock twenty-five
feet long and eight feet wide upon whose surface
are hundreds of footprints. It is hoped that this
interesting out-of-door exhibit will engrave its
message upon the minds of the many people who
come from all over the world to visit the canyon.

What kind of animals made these tracks? That
is a question that can be only partially answered at
this time. Study has revealed that quadrupedal ani¬
mals are responsible for most of them. Some of
these animals had only three toes to a foot, others
had four, and still others five. Some were provided
with long, sharp claws; some were apparently with¬
out claws, and some had the toes terminating in
blunt, rounded nails. Some were as small as a

Tracks of Igaanodon.much reduced. From Wealden
sfraia, En0land Modified from Hu-Fchinsort

mouse, while others were very large, with a stride
of thirty inches. Some had short limbs and wide,
heavy bodies, while others had long, slender limbs
and narrow bodies. Certain rocks in Texas and
New Mexico of the same geologic age as the track¬
bearing rocks in the Grand Canyon contain skele¬
tons of many kinds of extinct animals, some of
which, it is thought, from measurements of their
foot, limb and body bones, might have made foot¬
prints resembling those in the Grand Canyon. It,
therefore, seems fair to assume that like animals
formerly inhabited the two regions. If these deduc¬
tions are correct, we may know that the Grand
Canyon tracks were made by primitive crawling
reptiles and amphibians that were unlike any crea¬
ture living today.

In addition to the footprints just described, the
canyon rocks have preserved trails evidently made
by crablike animals or large insects, as indicated
by the outline of pointed toes in clusters of two and
three, with a distinct furrow between, caused by the
drag of a tail. They also contain burrows thought
to have been made by worms.

More modern animals also have left their tracks.
They may be found in rocks of the Pleistocene
epoch, which immediately preceded the one in
which we now live. Of the footprints of this epoch
none have attracted wider attention than those
found in 1882 in the prison yard of the State Peni¬
tentiary at Carson City, Nevada. In quarrying for
sandstone, tracks attributed to the mammoth, horse,
deer, wolf, ground sloth and birds were uncovered.
The startling announcement of the press in the
first reports of this discovery attributed the ground-
sloth foot-prints to the sandaled feet of primeval
man. This, of course, provoked wide interest since,
if true, it gave evidence of the existence of man
on this continent at a period much earlier than
scientists were at that time willing to concede. Fur¬
thermore, the size of the footprints indicated that
this supposed man belonged to a race of giants, and,
if he, then all his fellows, too, our ancestors. And
this is exactly what most people used to believe,
and hoped that all traces of ancient man would
prove. Although naturalists of the time soon point¬
ed out the error of such assumptions, it remained
for Prof. Chester Stock to show conclusively that
the articulated bonds of the ground-sloth’s foot
(Mylodon) were fully capable of making the dis¬
puted tracks, and any doubt that may still have
existed was dispelled for all time by the discovery
of the fragmentary bones of one of these clumsy
creatures in the rocks of the prison yard.

In the preceding pages, the localities of only a
few of the outstanding fossil footprints in North
America have been mentioned. These tracks have
been noted, however, in many other localities in
this country, as well as in foreign lands, particu¬
larly in the British Isles and continental Europe,
where they have been the subject of scientific in-
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Employes’ Magazine

May, 1937

” ” ” Ye Old Timers “ " "

Death of Mrs. Ellen S. Parr

HERE passed away on March 31 at the Wyoming

General Hospital in Rock Springs Mrs. Ellen S.
Parr, relict of the late John T. Parr. She was a na¬
tive of Lancashire, England, and had made her
home in this city since 1905.

Upon the 50th Anniversary of their wedding,
January 1, 1934, their childreti assembled and the
group picture of the entire family shown here was
taken and published in our February magazine of
that year.

Seven sons and three daughters survive, most of
the former being connected with our company.

Mrs. Parr was active in church and charitable
work and also belonged to several fraternal orders.
Royal Neighbors, W. B. A., Star of Bethlehem, etc.

The funeral services were conducted at the Epis¬
copal Church, Rev. H. C. Swezy in charge, on
Sunday, April 4th, a large turnout of friends and

acquaintances in attendance to testify to the esteem
in which she had been held. Interment was in Moun¬
tain View Cemetery.

Thomas LeMarr, Sr., has returned from San Ber¬
nardino, California, where he spent several months
in an endeavor to get away from the severe climate
of Southwestern Wyoming. He claims that rain and
snow were encountered all the time he was away
and that one felt the rigors of winter worse at that
low altitude than here. “Never again,” quoth he.

Mrs. Mary Shields, wife of Charles Shields, col¬
ored, after an illness of several months, passed
away at the Wyoming General Hospital, Wednes¬
day morning, March 24. To mourn her loss are her
husband and two married daughters. The funeral
was held Sunday afternoon, March 28, services at
a local chapel. Rev. K. Sheldon officiating.

Group Picture of the Parr family taken on the occasion of the Fiftieth JVedding Anniversary of
the late John T. Parr and his wife Ellen S. Parr, January 1, 1934.

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209

“Charlie” is a member of the Old Timers’ As¬
sociation and his many friends about town extend
sincere sympathy.

At Denver on March 30th occurred the death of
another of our Old Timers in the person of Patrick
Nugent. Mr. Nugent first entered the service of our
Company at Superior in 1907
and had faithfully served it as
a loader, miner, teamster, etc.,
'for approximately twenty-five
years. To mourn his departure
are a widow and three grown
children to whom is extended
the sympathy of their many
friends. The interment took
Patrick Nugent place at Denver on April 2nd,
1937. Mr. Nugent was born
March 17, 1877, at Tanikmore, Ireland, and re¬
ceived his naturalization papers in Philadelphia in
1905-1907.

Quite a number of old-time friends of the fami¬
ly from Superior drove to Denver to attend the
obsequies.

Dr. L. E. Young, Operating Vice President of The
Pittsburgh Coal Company, Pittsburgh, will be the
chief speaker at the banquet at the Old Timers’
Association on June 19th. His wife will accompany
him to Rock Springs. The Doctor made many
friends upon a former visit who will be pleased
to welcome him upon this occasion.

Several of our “oldest” Old Timers have been
on the sick list of late and we are all hoping with
the advent of warm weather they will be able to
attend the 13th Annual Reunion and Field Day. A
good time is in store for all. This year 711 names
are on the roster and there will be at least three
members to receive the 40-year gold buttons at the
hands of President and Mrs. McAuliffe.

Obituary

Mrs. John K. Johnson

There passed away at Ameriean Lake, Wash¬
ington, on March 31, at the home of her daugh¬
ter, Mrs. Mary Johnson (wife of Old Timer John K.
Johnson, of Superior).

Born in Finland in 1878, she came to Hanna
in 1899, where the family lived for several years,
thence to Cumberland, Wyoming, and Tono, Wash¬
ington, at which latter place she resided twelve
years, thence to Superior, Wyoming.

Surviving are her husband, five daughters, Mrs.
J. B. Jones, Portland, Oregon; Mrs. R. J. Paul,
American Lake, Washington; Mrs. B. F. Patchett,
Seattle, Washington; Miss Ida Johnson, Ilwaco,
Washington, and Miss Edna Johnson, Olympia,
Washington, and one son, John S. Johnson, Se¬
attle, Washington, her mother and sister in Fin¬

Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Johnson and granddaughter.

land, one sister in Portland, Oregon, and one
brother in San Franciseo, California.

The sympathy of their many friends goes out to
them in their time of sorrow. In the photo, Mr. and
Mrs. Johnson and granddaughter are shown.

Long Service Records

The Link-B61t News of Chicago, in its April
number publishes an item “444 Years of Loyal
Service” with picture accompanying of ten of its
employes.

A hurried glance over our Old Timers roster for
1937 shows the following named are still on our
pay rolls:

Years

Service

Charles Morgan . 53

T. S. Taliaferro, Jr. 54

Pat. Russell . 58

Robert Muir . 57

William Bean, Sr.... 56

P. Boam, Sr. 60

T. H. Butler. 56

Lao Chee. 57

Joseph Dyett. 54

Thomas LeMarr.. 56

TOTAL.....561

We have many more men with 50-51-55 years
service, but the names above were selected as out¬
standing.

Art Treasure

A London hostess who was entertaining Baron
Hayashi, the Japanese ambassador, had in her pos¬
session a gay and decorative Japanese panel which
she hung over her drawing-room door.

Asked his opinion of this treasure of art and an¬
tiquity, he replied:

“M’m . yes, yes ... Panel upside down.It is

the flag of the third Section Tokyo Fire Brigade . ...
M’m .....very nice.”

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May, 1937

The Animal Life of the Triassic Era

(Continued from page 207)
vestigation for many years. Interesting though fossil
skeletons may he, they inevitably symbolize crea¬
tures in the stillness of death, whereas footprints
suggest them in the full vigor of life, and so have
a dramatic appeal which only the present tense
can give.

Article No, 25—The Preservation and Collecting
of Fossil Vertebrates.

A. I. M. E. Meeting

The Wyoming Section met at Howard’s Cafe,
Rock Springs, Wednesday evening, April 7, 1937,
fifty members and guests being present.

At the conclusion of the dinner, Chairman, Glen
A. Knox, Superintendent of the Gunn-Quealy Coal
Company, opened the meeting and after a few brief
remarks introduced Mr. Eugene McAuliffe, Presi¬
dent of The Union Pacific Coal Company. Mr. Mc¬
Auliffe pointed out the many advantages of the in¬
stitute, giving a short resume of the Session in Mexi¬
co City last November and that of the coal division
meeting at Pittsburgh in October of last year. He
introduced Mr. Dan Harrington, Chief Engineer of
the Safety Division of the United States Bureau of
Mines, Washington, D. C., remarking that he had
sent a special request to Mr. John W. Einch, Di¬
rector of the United States Bureau of Mines that
Mr. Harrington be sent out here to study our safety
practices with the idea of making recommendations
for safer mining. Mr. Harrington gave some inter¬
esting factors pertaining to explosions, comparing
the five years 1906 to 1910 (prior to the formation
of the Bureau of Mines) with the years 1933 to
1936. He stressed the need of education, and the
responsibility of the companies in making a suc¬
cessful safety campaign, pointing out that several
companies in various industries had made wonder¬
ful records in safety.

Chairman Knox then introduced Mr. V. 0. Mur¬
ray, Safety Engineer, The Union Pacific Coal Com¬
pany, who attended as a delegate from this section
the New York meeting last February, whose report
of the meeting was very interesting. His talk con¬
sisted of a brief discussion of several of tbe papers
and some of the advantages of the institute for the
young engineer.

Our Summer Vacations

The vacation schedule for the summer of 1937
in our several groups of mines has been arranged

as follows:

Reliance.May 25 to June 3, inclusive

Superior.June 4 to June 13, inclusive

Rock Springs. .. .June 23 to July 2, inclusive

Winton.July 3 to July 12, inclusive

Hanna.July 10 to July 19, inclusive

You will recall that vacations are arranged in a

rotating order, Reliance going out first this year.
This schedule provides that one set of mines will
be down during the period May 25th to July 19th,
inclusive, the arrangement merely bunching up idle
time without loss of earnings to any employe.

Coal Here, There, and Everywhere

The Rocky Mountain Coal Mining Institute will
meet in Denver May 31-June 1, 2.

The American Mining Congress will hold its
14th Annual Coal Convention and Exposition in the
Music Hall at Cincinnati, May 17-21. This district,
it is expected, will be represented. All tbe new
and modern mining machinery will be on exhibi¬
tion and operators will gain incalculable benefit
from the many talks and ideas expressed thereat.

The Mine Inspectors’ Institute of America will
hold its 28th Annual Convention at Columbus,
Ohio, on June 21, 22, 23, the Deshler-Wallipk Hotel
to be headquarters.

At the beginning of the present year, Czecho¬
slovakia had 40,882 wage earners in its hard coal
mines, while in the brown coal properties (lignite)
some 28,153 men were employed. The output per
man shift in the hard coal mines averaged 1.438
tons and in the brown coal mines 2.454 tons; 4.76
working days per week in the first named opera¬
tions and 4.92 in the latter—these figures repre¬
senting January. _

Harry B. Cooley, Vice President of the Allen &
Garcia Company, Chicago, died March 23rd fol¬
lowing an operation a few days earlier. He super¬
vised the construction of the new tipple at our Re¬
liance Mines a year ago and was widely and fa¬
vorably known. Born at Chadron, Nebraska, he was
a graduate of the University of Illinois and had
been associated with the firm named since 1914.
Services and interment were held at Chadron.

Fifty-six coal pits in Scotland (employing ten
men or over) have closed down in the four years
ending 1936 and have not since reopened.

The corporation of Glasgow, Scotland, has just
contracted for one million and a half gallons of
oil, 75 per cent of which will be supplied by the
Scottish shale oil companies.

Japan in 1936 made a new record, its produc¬
tion of coal estimated at approximately forty-five
million tons. This according to figures promulgated
by the Fuel Society.

The Manchurian Coal Mining Company has in¬
creased its capital from sixteen million to eighty
million yuan in connection with the five-year in¬
dustrial development program of the Manchoukou

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211

Government, the additional capital required to be
jointly provided by the Government and the South
Manchuria Railway Company. Liquefaction of coal
at the Fuhsin mining property is being planned
which will require the construction of a large plant.
The mine mentioned is reputed to have available
deposits of five billion tons.

A petrified tree stump, more than two feet in
diameter, has been found in an old mine near Ther-
mopolis. For some- reason other parts of the tree
turned to coal, this section petrifying. It was found
about 500 feet underground.

Arthur Forsell of Superior has been elected
president of the safety group at the Copenhagen
mine of the Rock Springs Fuel Company at Supe¬
rior, with John Tennant as secretary, it has been
announced by Lyman Fearn, safety engineer for the
Southern Wyoming Coal Operators’ Association.

Our Schools

R. A. G. Crane, Dean of Wyoming University,
Laramie, made a tour of the state high schools
in March and April, delivering addresses at both Su¬
perior and Rock Springs institutions. He also ad¬
dressed the Lions Club luncheon on March 31st.

Mr. R. L. Markley, State Commissioner of Edu¬
cation, Cheyenne, was also in this vicinity during
March upon his annual visitation.

Samuel H. Knight widely known Professor of
Geology at Wyoming University at Laramie, has
been appointed to the faculty of Columbia Uni¬
versity, New York, for the six weeks’ summer
course. He will lecture on the geology of the Rocky
Mountain district, and the headquarters camp will
be in the Medicine Bow range.

School Land income funds for 1936-1937 school
year were recently distributed by the State Superin¬
tendent of Public Instruction. Sweetwater County
with 5,467 children was paid $37,931.26, Carbon
County with 3,057 children received $21,210.15.

The Semi-centennial celebration of the University
of Wyoming will be celebrated at Laramie on June
6. 7 and 8, and invitations have no doubt reached
the 1,001 asked to participate therein. Public, High
and Normal School Superintendents, Presidents of
Universities, Congressional representatives, mem¬
bers of the press, prominent railroad officials, of¬
ficers of national school fraternities, all previous
Presidents of Wyoming University, and members
of their families. Governors of this and surrounding
states, legislative members, State and County offi¬
cials, are amongst the large number to receive invi¬
tations. The third President, Dr. Frank Pierrepont
Graves, has signified his intention of being in at¬
tendance.

“Okie,” C. H. Blanchard, for eight years past the
popular and efficient coach at Rock Springs High
School, has tendered his resignation to accept a
position in a similar capacity at Casper High School
where he will have additional duties in connection
with physical education and administrative work.
He made an enviable record in this city in football,
basketball and track, the local team having landed
the district football championship five years, and
second place two years; the State championship
in 1935; while in basketball they annexed the dis¬
trict championship each year except in 1936. They
won State honors in 1932, 1935 and 1937 under
his direction. In track they have been equally suc¬
cessful. What is our loss will be Casper’s gain and
his many friends and supporters here wish him
success in his new field. His successor has not been
named as yet.

Twenty-two students are on the Rock Springs
high school honor roll for the third quarter of the
current school year, according to Principal K. P.
Winchell. Following are the honor students:

Grade of all A’s—Doly Yoshida, Margaret An¬
derson, Mary Murphy, Helen Hudman, Elizabeth
Winchell, Boyd Marshall. Paul Yedinak, Burt Lar¬
sen, Evelyn May, Lois Angelovic, Jean Cameron,
Ruth Stevenson, Leola Hetzler.

All A’s with exception of one B—Phyllis Wat¬
son, DuWayne Christofferson, Richard Kellogg,
John Dykes, Margaret Hogan, Emma Anselmi, So¬
phie Pryich, Emma Lou Laughlin, Mitsuko Sugano.

Garden Time

Have you yet started that little “bit of paradise”
in your front or back yard? Planting time is
here and one would be perfectly justified in seed¬
ing and planting. No matter how slender the purse
may be, everyone can afford a garden, with seeds
and plants priced as they are year after year.

Your next door, or across the street, neighbor
has been capturing the cash prizes each year award¬
ed by the Company and this should be a sufficient
incentive for you to beautify your surroundings
with a few choice beds of phlox for what have you)
and onions, lettuce, radishes, cabbage, etc., for the
table. Fresh vegetables out of your own plot, plant¬
ed. nurtured and cultivated by you will give you a
thrill and taste much better than those which have
stood on your green grocer’s shelf for several days.

The use of buds and flowers will likewise add to
your delight when you espy vases here and there
throughout the house filled with blooms from your
own garden.

Remember too that the annual flower show spon¬
sored by the Woman’s Club offers many prizes and
awards and your choicest late selections should be
saved for exhibition thereat.

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Employes’ Magazine

May, 1937

»»Of Interest to Women««

Choice Recipes

Salmon Roll
(Other fish may be used)

Two cups flour, 4 teaspoons baking powder, Vt
teaspoon salt, 4 tablespoons fat, 1 egg, 1/^ cup milk.
Mix flour, baking powder and salt. Cut in the fat
and add egg. Slowly add milk. When a soft dough
forms, pat it out until it is half an inch thick.
Quickly spread with salmon and roll up. Place in
a buttered loaf pan. Bake 30 minutes in a moderate
oven. Unmold and surround with egg and pea
sauce.

Salmon

Three tablespoons butter, 4 tablespoons flour,
1)4 cups milk, )4 teaspoon salt, )4 teaspoon celery
salt, 1 teaspoon minced parsley, 1 cup salmon.

Mix butter and flour. Add milk and cook until
a thick sauce forms. Add the rest of the ingredients
and cook 2 minutes. Cool so that the mixture will
thicken. Spread on the dough.

Egg and Pea Sauce

Three tablespoons butter, 4 tablespoons flour, 2
cups milk, 14 cup cooked peas, 2 hard-boiled eggs
(diced), 2 tablespoons minced pimientos, )4 tea¬
spoon salt, 14 teaspoon paprika, 14 teaspoon minc¬
ed parsley.

Melt butter. Add flour and, when mixed, add the
milk. Cook until a creamy sauce forms, stirring con¬
stantly. Add rest of the ingredients and cook two
minutes. Serve immediately.

Apple Sauce Cake

Cream 1 cup butter, add 2 cups sugar gradually,
beating until smooth and creamy. Add 2 well-
beaten eggs and blend well. Mix and sift 2)4 cups
flour, )4 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, 2
teaspoons soda and 1 teaspoon cloves. Add to first
mixture and mix well. Then add 2 cups raisins, 2
cups chopped nuts and when well blended add 2
cups hot apple sauce. Turn into a greased loaf pan
and bake in a moderately hot oven.

Onion Soup With Cheese

Four cups beef stock, 4 large onions, 8 table¬
spoons grated cheese (preferably Parmesan), 2
tablespoons butter, 4 slices bread.

Slice onions very fine and fry them in melted but¬
ter until they are brown. Then add the brown
stock and boil until the onions are tender, about
15 minutes. Toast slices of bread and place in the

bottom of a tureen. Pour hot stock over the toast.
Sprinkle with grated cheese and serve immediately.

Household Hints

Oil of pennyroyal sprinkled in places infested by
ants will soon frighten them away.

It is well to plan closely, but not so closely that
you are uncertain whether you are going to have
enough.

A few drops of oil of lavender in a cup of hot
water will sweeten the air in the sickroom without
being offensive to the patient.

Made to Fit

A candle may be made to fit any candlestick if
dipped for a moment into very hot water, softening
the wax into a pliable condition when it can be
forced into the holder.

Indelible Ink

The first time the young son or daughter dis¬
covers an indelible ink pencil, mother can expect
a bit of trouble. However, the stains will come out
by soaking the spot in ammonia and water solu¬
tion, fairly strong. The process may have to be re¬
peated a few times, but this will bring the stains
out of white materials.

A Belt to the Rescue

Deep hems and long belts that are made of double
material are practical on house dresses. By the time
a house dress needs patching it has been washed so
many times the material has lost much of its color
and then is the time that extra piece of belting, a
patch pocket, or the underneath part of the hem,
comes in just fine, as it exactly matches the rest of
the material.

Comfortable at the Table

Remember when seating guests at your dining¬
room table that 20 inches is the minimum allow¬
ance of space for each person and 25 or 30 inches
is better. It quite spoils the dinner to be so crowded
that one is conscious of every movement while
eating.

Well Rinsed

After washing the bathtub be sure to rinse it
thoroughly so it will not be slippery with soap¬
suds when the next person takes a bath. Many ac¬
cidents are caused by people getting into slippery
tubs.

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Employes’ Magazine

213

A few green plants in the house give a cheerful
appearance, but don’t take the most cheerful bay
window in your home and crowd it full of tables
and tabourets holding pot after pot of greens. Have
one or two if you wish, but leave room for big com¬
fortable chairs in the sunny spot so people can en¬
joy your home, not just plants.

The radiator brush will clean the coil spring
nicely.

Silver will retain its polish longer if always
rinsed in boiling water after washing.

Line the bottom of the kitchen waste paper bas¬
ket with a piece of oil cloth. Nothing can soak
through this fabric, and when it is soiled it can
be wiped off easily.

When giving a pie or cake to a bazaar or fair,
place it on a large-sized picnic plate, cover with a
fancy paper doily. Then you will not have to worry
about the plate being returned.

Women’s Activities

Mrs. Jane Pedalupe, aged 75, Effingham, Illinois,
was warned by her daughter to stay off the icy
streets, which she did, but during the day slipped
on a rug and broke her leg.

Margaret, Rose, and Katherine Baer, 19-year-
old triplets, went to the hospital at Boulder, Cali¬
fornia, the first two for thyroid trouble and the
third for removal of her appendix.

Dr. C. Anna J. Brown, 66, is coroner of Seneca
Falls, N. Y. As an active physician, she presides at
inquests and handles all the details of an office
heretofore regarded as “for men only.”

In less than a year five women air-marking pilots
have succeeded in completing 58 per cent of a pro¬
gram by which there will be a rooftop marker every
fifteen miles in every direction over the United
States.

Miss Lydia Gruchy, of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan,
is the first woman ever ordained into the ministry
of any church in Canada. She is associated with
the United Church of Canada.

Passing the Buck: Miss Eleanor Buck, Detroit,
Mich., dislikes the name Buck and had it changed
to Seaver. A few months later she married Bernard
Buck, no relation.

The oldest leap year bride in England in 1936
is Mrs. Eliza Ann Mfilson, aged 80, of Nottingham.
Her new husband, Thomas Towers, is 83. The two
have more than thirty grandchildren.

Mrs. Burton W. Musser of Utah, who was a dele¬
gate from the United States to the Pan-American
peace conference in Buenos Aires, is a distinguished
linguist. She speaks French, Spanish, German and
Italian fluently.

Miss Constance Clancy, aged 23, ranks as the
youngest mayor in Australia, if not in the entire
British empire. She works as a typist during the
daytime and in the evening performs her duties as
mayor of Paddington, a suburb of Sydney.

One of the richest gifts in modern times has been
bestowed on Canterbury cathedral by Mrs. Robin-
son-Harrison of Cumberland, England. It is a casket
consisting of the biggest piece of platinum ever
worked, adorned with the first figures ever cast in
this precious metal and with rare diamonds stud¬
ding its side.

An old lady named Sarah Edwards recently
passed away at Hove. Jilngland, at the age of 77.'
Sarah was a link with mid-Victorian days, for she
used to make poke-bonnets. Her mother had been
apprenticed to a Shrewsbury firm, and she taught
the trade to her daughter. The fashion for poke-
bonnets began in about 1875, and the first of these
Sarah saw were made for the daughters of a clergy¬
man, who wore them for the remainder of their
lives. At Castle Rising, in Norfolk, these bonnets
are still worn by the village women.

Poke-bonnets made a hole in the purses of the
Victorian maidens, for they cost from one pound
to thirty shilling each (about $5 to $7.50), and
every season they were sent back to the manufac¬
turer to be cleaned and reblocked. So popular did
the bonnet become that at one time twenty-four
firms in North Wales employed hundreds of people
in plaiting and weaving these fashionable straw bon¬
nets.

If you housewives will purchase a large, heavy
dish cloth and use this exclusively for your paints
during your spring housecleaning you will never
use any other type cloth again. There is a certain
amount of roughage in the cloth that, when com¬
bined with a good paint soap, will take away any
soil with one wipe. You can wring it dry as you
like so there is no wet, streaky paint in its wake.

Mrs. Dash wished to show kindness to Captain
Blank, so sent him this invitation:

“Mrs. Dash requests the pleasure of Captain
Blank’s company at a reception on Friday evening.”

A prompt reply came:

“With the exception of three men, who, unfor¬
tunately, are suffering from measles. Captain
Blank’s company accepts your kind invitation, and
will come with pleasure to your reception on Fri¬
day evening.”

214

Employes’ Magazine

May, 1937

” ” ” Our Young Women “" “

Styles and Fashions

At a recent millinery guild show held in New
York City, the hats worn were noteworthy for brand
new colors, unusually becoming silhouettes, differ¬
ent trims and novel materials.

Three new colors, called country club green,
country club brown and country club burnt wheat,
were introduced. The latter, a dark beige, was espe¬
cially prominent in the afternoon’s showings, ap¬
pearing in combinations with both the other two
new shades as well as with other colors. The other
two were both flattering, comparatively dark shades.

The coming season, the stylists represented pre¬
dicted, will see many wide_ brims, extremely shal¬
low crowns—many of them cut out at the top, and
much use of streamers, long and short.

The most recent newcomer as far as silhouettes
are concerned, is the calot, the skull-cap type of hat
which had its origin in the brief head coverings
worn by old world monks. It appeared in a variety
of ways. Some had veils and flowers that almost
hid its identity. Others, like the black satin calot
with the row of black satin bows down the back,
which was one of the outstanding hats in the show,
had detachable brims.

Sheer straws were the news as far as up-to-the-
season materials were concerned. One stitched net
evening calot of geranium rose was nearly sheer
enough to be called negligible.

Noisy silk underskirts are worn under all the
smartest spring outfits. With sheer wools, with dull
crepes, with suit skirts, daytime dresses and en¬
sembles, the underskirts discreetly whisper that pet¬
ticoats are back. Vivid colors in moires, stripes
and blazing plaids are worn.

Copper beach, dynamic copper color with rich
red overtones, is spectacularly successful in new
spring footwear. Something to covet is an austerely
sculptured shoe of copper beach kidskin, its shield
shaped tongue outlined with puffs of quilting.
Pumps are high style for new sheer frocks, as wit¬
ness the toeless copper beach kid pump with suavely
wrapped strap vamp. For the English drape suit of
Kent grey flannel, try bicycle oxfords of copper
beach kidskin as a single, brilliant relief.

Dance away the hours in chiffon. A new model is
an all over pleated deep yellow chiffon with gold
kidskin edging the high, round bodice, making the
belt and bordering the hemline.

No matter how much you like color, you should
include one all black afternoon or dinner dress in
your wardrobe. A grand number is of black silk
crepe, ankle length, with a triple pleated roll in
lieu of sleeves and a black cire satin sash and a
back panel of satin.

Right in the picture for spring is the cape cos¬
tume. A neutral beige tweed suit has a dashing cape
to match with tuxedo revers of natural lynx. It is
worn with brown accessories for travel and with
black or blue for town.

New York Woman to Award 5'lver
Cups for Heroic Deeds

A New York woman will award six silver cups
during the second week of May, Peace Week, to two
local civil service employees, two laymen, and two
children for heroic peace-time deeds.

She is Mrs. J. Sergeant Cram, director of Peace
House. The purpose of the prizes, she explains, is to
turn public attention to every-day acts of heroism,
which she believes ought to be acclaimed just as
much as bravery on a battlefield.

Conduct Survey on Outstanding Char¬
acteristics of Professional and
Business Women

The National Federation of Business and Profes¬
sional Women has recently conducted a survey to
find out the things that contribute to the success of
the professional and business woman.

Age, they discovered, is no alibi for the woman
who has failed to make good. More than half of the
successful careerists questioned were over forty.

Good speech is essential. Many women have
found it profitable to take training from a voice
specialist.

A neat, w'ell-groomed appearance is of great im¬
portance. Dignified dress, quieter colors and mod¬
ern but tasteful styles are recommended as helpful
hints to the young girl seeking a job or to the older
wmman who wants to “hang on” to the one she has.

Posture is another important requisite. Head held
high, shoulders straight, an easy, graceful carriage
and a restful posture when in repose, as well as the
exclusion of all mannerisms such as nose-pulling,
face-touching, hand-wringing and other habits which
indicate an unpoised and unrestful mind, are abso¬
lutely necessary in the securing and keeping of a
job.

May, 1937

Employes’ Magazine

215

Girl Scout Notes

The Association of Girl Scout Leaders will in
the future hold its sessions on the second Wednes¬
day evening of each month instead of on Friday as
in the past.

Under the direction of Mrs. Hubert Webster, lo¬
cal Girl Scout Commissioner and Regional Di¬
rector, with a committee from this city, the Girl
Scouts of Superior were recently reorganized, Mrs.
Paul Christensen being named Scout Captain and
several lieutenants were appointed to assist her in
the season’s activities.

Girl Scout Commissioner, Mrs. Hubert Webster,
announces the personnel of the newly appointed
Council Committees for 1937-1938:

Council Membership

Mrs. Hubert Webster, Commissioner.

Mrs. Matt Medill, First Deputy Commissioner.

Mrs. G. S. Pitchford, Second Deputy Commis¬
sioner.

Mrs. J. C. Adkison, Recording Secretary.

Mrs. A. H. Holmes, Treasurer.

Mesdames D. K. Bowen, J. Cohen, Angus Hatt,
John Henderson, Winton; R. P. Hogan, Clyde
Kurtz, Reliance; D. P. Miller, Adrian Reynolds,
Morgan Roberts, Frank Romish, A. V. Sager, Dines;
J. S. Salmon, Paul Sheffer, Keenan Sheldon, Rock
Springs; Mrs. R. C. Smih, Dines.

Misses Anna Corneliusen, Frances Peters.

(Two members to be reported from Superior.)

Training and Personnel

Mrs. David P. Miller, chairman; Mesdames D. K.
Bowen, R. C. Smith, Dines; Frank Romish; Misses
Frances Peters, Elizabeth Willson, Cam'.le Brown.

Badges and Awards

Mrs. Adrian Reynolds, chairman; Mesdames R.
P. Hogan, Morgan Roberts, John Henderson, Win-
ton; Angela Silva, Dines; Keenan Sheldon; Misses
Marian Chambers and Ina Savo, Quealy.

Publicity

Mrs. W. D. Thompson, chairman; Mesdames J.
C. Adkison, Fred Spreng, Carl Bell, J. Cohen, P. L.
Christensen, Superior; Miss Merna Roberts.

Finance

Mrs. A. H. Holmes, chairman; Mesdames G. S.
Pitchford, J. S. Salmon, Paul Sheffer, Hubert Web¬
ster, Miss Louise Gillum, Rock Springs; Mrs.
Clyde Kurtz, Reliance.

Camp

Mesdames Matt Medill, Reliance; A. V. Sager,
Dines; Richardson, Superior; Angus Hatt, Hubert
Webster; Misses Anna Corneliusen, Norma Hoy.
Helen Thomas.

Leaders Association Officers
Mrs. Fred Spreng, President; Miss Marian Cham¬
bers, Vice President; Mrs. Angus Hatt, Recording
Secretary; Mrs. A. V. Sager, Treasurer, Dines; Miss
Katherine Vehar, Statistician, Dines.

Having a Friend at Court
Pat had been arrested for murder. He was guilty
and he knew it, but he did not want to hang. On
learning his friend Tom was on the jury he went
to him and said:

“Now, Tom, I know I ought to be convicted of
first-degree murder, but Pll give you .$500 if you
can get me a verdict of manslaughter.”

The day of the trial Pat was very nervous and
increasingly so as the jury deliberated hour after
hour. Finally they marched in, and the foreman
said—“We find him guilty of ‘manslaughter’.”

Pat was so thankful he immediately handed his
friend a check not for $500 but for $1,000.

“That’s all right,” replied Tom, “although I will’
admit it was one tough job. There were the other
eleven of them all for ‘acquittal’, but believe me, I
just held out for ‘manslaughter’ like you said.”

A Superior Apartment House

Konstantinas Thomathis, a 40-year-old resident of
Superior, Wyoming, built the rock castle pictured
below from rock and stone gathered off the hills
at that town. He was engaged in this work for a
period of seven years—all his own handiwork—
the house containing forty-three doors and win¬
dows. It is rented to employes and families of the
mines of Superior. He claims there were over three
thousand tons of rock used in its construction. He
acts in the capacity of Greek Consul at that point,
and is familiarly dubbed “Judge” Thomas by na¬
tives of that country resident in the mining district.

Rock house built by Konstantinas Thomathis,
Superior.

Mr. Thomathis contributed the photo to the
Editor’s desk requesting it be reproduced in our
magazine with its brief history. Upon close inspec¬
tion of the picture, the builder may be seen stand¬
ing upon the upper balcony.

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" “ ” Our Little Folks “ “ ”

The American Boy

“That we have a right to expect of the American
boy is that he shall turn out to be a good American
man. The boy can best become a good man by
being a good boy—not a goody-goody boy, but just
a plain good boy. I do not mean that he must love
only the negative virtues; I mean that he must love
the positive virtues also. “Good,” in the largest
sense, should include whatever is fine, straight¬
forward, clean, brave, and manly. The best boys I
know—the best men I know—are good at their
studies or their business, fearless and stalwart, hated
and feared by all that is wicked and depraved, in¬
capable of submitting to wrongdoing, and equally
incapable of being aught but tender to the weak and
helpless. Of course the effect that a thoroughly
manly, thoroughly straight and upright boy can
have upon the companions of his own age, and
upon those who are younger, is incalculable. If he
is not thoroughly manly, then they will not respect
him, and his good qualities will count for but little;
while, of course, if he is mean, cruel or wicked,
then his physical strength and force of mind merely
make him so much the more objectionable a mem¬
ber of society. He can not do good work if he is
not strong and does not try with his whole heart
and soul to count in any contest; and his strength
will be a curse to himself and to every one else if
he does not have a thorough command over him¬
self and over his own evil passions, and if he does
not use his strength on the side of decency, justice
and fair dealing.

“In short, in life, as in a football game, the prin¬
ciple to follow is: Hit the line hard; don’t foul
and don’t shirk, but hit the line hard.”

—Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919.

Tallest Person

The tallest person ever recorded authentically in
the United States is Robert Wadlow, nineteen, of
Alton, Ill. His height, 8 feet 5l/o inches. His weight,
450 lbs.

Young Wadlow, a college freshman, has not stop¬
ped growing. He has an appetite in keeping with
his proportions, and daily consumes food equiva¬
lent to about 8,000 calories—more than twice that
required by grown-ups of average size.

The Illinois giant, towering far above all mem¬
bers of his family, is a giant for one reason only—
overactivity of his pituitary gland. This gland,
small, oval and reddish-gray, is attached to the
brain of all human beings and controls growth.
When it is overactive, it causes giantism.

Want to Be An Announcer?

The following sentences were given to applicants
for positions as announcer at a large engineering
school. Try them out loud and see what happens.

“As the wretched, ragged, robber ran rapidly to¬
ward the rugged rock, whither the weary Willow
River wound, he saw a psyche in a niche near a
schism in the chasm, and he heard a hiss such as
this:—A little literal alliteration, languidly lingual,
liltingly lulls leery listeners leeward whither the
river flows.

“Shave a cedar shingle thin, and cast it into the
river so that it may flow to where the sea ceaseth
and sufficeth the storm swept sailor.

“Susan sews on such shapely sashes for .the six
sick statisticians that they need no anaethetist to
anaesthetize them with an anaesthesia.”

Why Not

Like children who bring notes from their par¬
ents to explain why they are late for school, many
French adults now have an excuse when they are
late for work.

Their “notes” are little cardboard tabs, handed
out by railroad conductors, when their trains are
slow. They save a lot of explaining to possibly
irate employers.

Teacher (brightly) : “As we walk out-of-doors
on a cold winter’s morning and look about us, what
do we see on every hand?”

Class (as a man) : “Gloves!”

Caller: “Won’t you walk as far as the street car
with me. Tommy?”

Tommy (aged five) : “I can’t.”

Caller: “Why not?”

Tommy: “Cause we’re gonna have dinner as soon
as you go.”

Lady: “I sent my little boy for two pounds of
plums and you only sent a pound and a half. Some¬
thing must be wrong with your scales.”

Storekeeper: “My scales are all right, madam.
Have you weighed your little boy?”

A lady was entertaining her friend’s small son.

“Are you sure you can cut your meat?” she
asked, after watching his struggles.

“Oh, yes,” he replied, without looking up from
his plate. “We often have it as tough as this at
home.”

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Boy Scout Activities

Father and Son Banquet Held Aprils

T he Boy Scouts “pulled off” quite successfully
their yearly Father and Son banquet at the Old
Timers’ Building, evening of April 5th, with an
attendance of about- 250. Mr. Cecil James was an
efficient Toastmaster and introduced the speakers
and entertainers with witty remarks.

Below is the program, the various numbers being
interspersed with verses and choruses by the as¬
semblage.

Invocation.Rev. K. Sheldon

Flag ceremony.Troop 172

Song “America” audience

Reading “At Cross Roads”.Scout Troop 172

Short talk.Past Scout Commissioner,

Chester Roberts

Roll call of troops

Instrumental selection—Hill Billy Orchestra. . . .

.Troop 168

Talk of Guest Speaker.J. I. Williams

“What Scouting Means to Me”.

.Eagle Scout Paul Yedinak

Report by Representative of Boy Scout Council of
this District.

Reading “The Coming American”.

.Eagle Scout Wallace Chambers

Scout Number.Reliance Troop

Taps.Scout Buddy Mills

Scout Benediction.Eagle Scout Jack Breihan

All Community singing led by Miss Jean Malowney
Accompanied by Miss Victoria Burroughs.

Edwin James was named as successor to Chester
M. Roberts, Scout Commissioner, whose resignation
was tendered some time since, and Mr. Pryde at
this juncture presented Mr. Roberts and Mr. J. I.
Williams with pen and pencil sets in recognition
of the valued services rendered to Scoutdom in the
past, Mr. Roberts having succeeded Mr. Williams
upon the transfer of the latter to Evanston, Wyo.

Scouts Honor Local Leaders

O UTSTANDING On many Boy Scout council pro¬
grams this month is the presentation of the
Silver Beaver to volunteer leaders. This award is a
miniature beaver in silver, suspended from a white
and blue ribbon worn around the neck. It recog¬
nizes “noteworthy service of exceptional character”
rendered to the boyhood of a small community.

The Silver Beaver was inspired by a similar
^ward, the Silver Buffalo, presented for “distin¬
guished service to boyhood” on a national or inter¬
national plane. The Silver Buffalo, established in
1926, led to requests from local councils for an

award that would recognize the work of such local
volunteers as scoutmasters and commissioners, who
rendered worthy service but did not come within
the scope of the Silver Buffalo.

The Silver Beaver award, as an answer to such
requests, was largely developed by the late Mor¬
timer L. Schiff, philanthropist, charter member of
the Boy Scouts national executive board and for
many years a vice president of the organization,
Mr. Schiff was elected president of the Boy Scouts
in May> 1931, at which time the Silver Beaver was
adopted.

During the first five years of its existence the
Silver Beaver was awarded to 3,289 leaders, whose
volunteer service to scouting occupied a total of
37,360 years, an average of more than eleven years.
Among the prominent men who won this honor
are: Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts; for¬
mer Senators Walter E. Edge and W. Warren Bar¬
bour of New Jersey; former Governors John G.
Winant of New Hampshire, R. A. Nestos of North
Dakota and John E. Weeks of Vermont; the late’
Arthur Brisbane and the late Charles Hayden; Louis
Bamberger, W. K. Kellogg and Paul W. Litchfield,
and former Health Commissioner Shirley W. Wynne
of New York.

The Late Charles Hayden

M ention was made in a recent issue of the pass¬
ing of Mr. Charles Hayden and his munificent
bequest of fifty million dollars for the creation of
a Foundation, the purpose of which is “for the
moral, mental and physical well-being of boys and
young men,” a recent number of a popular weekly
magazine referring to this bequest as the largest
gift of this nature made in twelve years.

Mr. Hayden was a native of New England, a
long-time resident of New York; a bachelor, banker
and philanthropist. Well known in Scouting circles
in New York City, he was presented by the Boy
Scout Foundation with the Award of the Silver
Beaver for distinguished service to youth.

A Board of Trustees consisting of four men was
arranged for by him to whom is given considerable
freedom in determining the specific direction in
which the work with youth should extend, his belief
that by wise and effective measures in dealing with
youth “we shall rear a nobler race”.

The Jamboree

Plans are being drawn for the construction of a
“tent city” on a 350-acre tract in Washington for
the National Scout Jamboree, to be held from June
30 to July 9, it was announced recently at the na¬
tional headquarters of the Boy Scouts of America,
2 Park Avenue.

More than 25,000 Scouts from all parts of this
country and abroad will attend the encampment.
President Roosevelt will address the gathering and

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will review the Scouts. A special convocation will
be held at the Washington Monument on the eve¬
ning of July 4, and a world brotherhood pageant
will be staged in connection with the closing camp¬
fire.

The property on which the tents will be erected
has been loaned by the government and lies on both
sides of the Potomac River, nearly all within view
of the Capitol, the Washington Monument and the
Lincoln Memorial.

The ofRcial poster for the jamboree has been
designed by Norman Rockwell. More than 250 men
will be engaged in constructing the “tent city,”
which will be divided into “villages,” each housing
1,260 Scouts. A special water supply will be pro¬
vided and every effort made to safeguard the health
of the visitors.

Dash to North Pole By Sled Is Planned

Youth Who Made 2,000-Mile Arctic Trek Alone
Says Trip Will Vindicate Peary

Dave Irwin, fully recovered from the effects of
his perilous 2,000 mile trek alone in a dog sled
across Arctic wastelands two years ago, will make
a similar trip in 1939—this time to the North Pole
—just to prove to skeptics that his boyhood hero.
Admiral Peary, actually did reach the Pole.

The adventurer, now 26 years old, said in an
interview at the Explorers Club, 10 West Seventy-
second Street, that he felt confident he could reach
his goal by sled. Doubt cast upon Peary’s accom¬
plishment by scientists and authors prompted him
to decide on the second journey, he explained,
despite the fact that his previous undertaking left
him half-mad and delirious with pain for many
months.

Still showing knife scars where he had to cut his
thumbs to loosen them from his forefingers, Irwin
said his projected expedition will fall on the thirti¬
eth anniversary of Peary’s venture, and if successful
will “silence once and for all his detractors.”

The youthful adventurer, who was born in Sar-
coxie. Mo., and ran away to sea at the age of 15,
revealed for the first time the real reason for his
lone journey.

“Andy Barr, a 65-year-old sour-dough, and I con¬
tracted with the Canadian Government to drive a
herd of 3,000 reindeer to Eastern Canada from
Alaska,” he related. “Not long after the trail was
struck I got into some trouble with the Eskimo
leader of the guides. Barr, a veteran in the ways of

the North country, advised me to leave before the
Eskimos turned on us. So, with a sled and a meager
pack, I set out alone .”—New York Times.

Another Eclipse

At noon, on June 8th, far out in the Pacific, 1,500
miles from any land, the moon will completely
cover the sun for a maximum duration of seven
minutes and four seconds. Extending 5,000 miles
across the ocean, it will be the longest eclipse
visible from the earth in the past 1,200 years.

In all the Pacific area, there are only two tiny
atolls from which this eclipse may be satisfactorily
observed, says the “Pathfinder.” These are located
in the Phoenix Islands, just south of the Equator,
about 1,800 miles southwest of the Hawaiis and
3,000 miles northeast of Australia. The only other
observation points, none of which would be satis¬
factory, are in South America along the mainland
of Peru.

In preparation for it, the National Geographic
Society and the United States Navy are co-operating
in plans to organize one of the largest and most
completely equipped expeditions ever sent out to
observe a total solar eclipse. Well in advance of
June 8th, a party of scientists will establish itself
on one of the two Phoenix Island atolls. At that
point, the totality of the eclipse will last about four
minutes and eight seconds.

Clever Lad

Teacher: “Why was Solomon the wisest man in
the world?”

Boy: “He had so many wives to advise him.”

Teacher (a strong minded woman) : “Well, that
is not the answer in the book, but you may go up
to the head of the class.”

News About All of Us

Rock Springs

Robert Simpkins has returned to work after a two
months’ illness.

Mrs. George Ward entertained the members of her
bridge club at her home on Center Street.

Mrs. Dave Kinniburgh visited in Reliance with her moth¬
er, Mrs. M. W. Medill.

Adam Medill visited friends in Pinedale, April 1st.

Angelo Simon is confined to his home with illness.

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Phone 109 SALES AND SERVICE Rock Spnngs

Mr. and Mrs. Anton Ferdoni are the proud parents of a
baby son, born March 23.

Miss Grace Buxton.'.has returned to the University at
Laramie, after having visited here with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. R. J. Buxton.

George Salyers is confined to his home with an attack
of rheumatism.

Dave Piaia visited with his brother. Carlo, at Dines.

Miss Blanche Parr, who is attending the Denver Uni¬
versity, in Denver, Colorado, visited here with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Parr, on April 1.

H. J. Harrington and family made a short visit with rela¬
tives in Ogden, Utah.

Mrs. Robert Hawkins and small daughter, of Craig, Colo¬
rado, are visiting at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
John Sorbie.

Mike Magnetti is confined to his home with an attack
of flu.

Glynn Hardy, of No. 4 Mine, has gone to Vernal, Utah,
where he expects to locate.

James Freeman has returned here to his home after hav¬
ing spent the past year and a half at the CCC camp in
Yellowstone National Park.

Several friends called on Mrs. Axel Johnson, to help her
celebrate her birthday anniversary. Tables were arranged
for bridge and luncheon was served. Mrs. Johnson received
many lovely gifts.

Mrs. William Powell and Mrs. Charles Bemis entertained
the members of the Royal Neighbors sewing circle at their
home on D. Street.

Miss Sylvia Mann, of Hanna, visited here with her par¬
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Mann.

Doctor and Mrs. H. J. Arbogast have returned from a
short visit in Southern California.

Mr. and Mrs. Lowell C. Smith have gone to Nevada,
where they expect to locate.

Mrs. Clarence Potter is recovering from a minor opera¬
tion undergone at the Wyoming General hospital.

Richard Pope visited with relatives in Green River.

Winton

Mrs. Jerry Notar died at the Rock Springs hospital on
March 24, 1937, after an extended illness. The community
extends its sympathy to the bereaved family.

Mrs. M. W. Medill, of Reliance, visited at the homes of
her sons, Glenn and George Sprowell.

Mrs. Richard Gibbs and son, Earl, visited with relatives
in Salt Lake City over 8-Hour Day.

George Mars and Glenroy Wallace and several Boy
Scouts attended the Father and Son banquet given in Rock
Springs on April 5, 1937.

Mrs. F. V. Hicks was called to California by the serious
illness of her mother.

Several Winton people journeyed to the north country
and enjoyed the first day of the fishing season.

Mrs. Dancil Vercimak and daughter, of Lyman, Wyo¬
ming, are visiting at the home of her parents.

Mrs. Catherine Warinner entertained the members of the
Altar Society at the Community Building. Following the
business meeting, a nice luncheon was served.

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Pecolar, of Rock Springs, visited
at the home of Mike Pecolar.

Mrs. James Kitching and daughter returned to Winton
after spending several weeks in Hanna, Wyoming, visiting
with her parents.

Mrs. Ernest Besso entertained a number of children in
honor of her daughter, Ernestine’s, sixth birthday. Re¬
freshments were served and a good time had by all present.

Mrs. William Bennett underwent a major operation at
the hospital in Rock Springs on April 1, 1937, and is
recovering nicely at this writing.

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Jeanselmi are the proud parents of
a baby son born March 25, 1937, at the hospital in Rock
Springs.

Mr. Emil Rosen has been in the hospital with an in¬
fected eye.

Reliance

Mr. and Mrs. John Easton are driving a new Chevrolet.

Mrs. Henry Menghini and daughter, of Laramie, spent
several days at the James Kelley home.

Mrs. James Sellers is visiting with relatives in Inde¬
pendence, Missouri.

Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Bastalich visited recently in Lara¬
mie with Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Rogers and in Hanna with
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lee.

Mrs. Harry Richardson and daughter are visiting rela¬
tives in Missouri.

Mr. and Mrs. Neil Thompson had as their guests Mr.
and Mrs. Jones and son, of Chariton, Iowa. Mrs. Jones is
a sister of Mrs. Thompson.

Miss Cecilia Sprowell, of McKinnon, visited at the M. W.
Medill home.

Frances Jean Korogi, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Korogi, was on the sick list during the month.

Mrs. John Porenta, Sr., is a patient in the Wyoming
General Hospital in Rock Springs.

Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey Murray are driving a new oar.

Mrs. Edward Vollack has been on the sick list.

Mrs. Max Bozner and son, of Rock Springs, visited at
the James Kelley and William Sellers homes.

Mr. W. Thomas is a patient in the Wyoming General
Hospital. --

Superior

Miss Ida Conzatti of Rock Springs visited at the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nick Conzatti, recently.

Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Jiacoletti were guests of relatives in
Kemmerer during the month.

Mr. and Mrs. William Matthew, of Rock Springs, and
Mrs. Hugh Rennie of Hanna, visited at the John Soltis
home a short time ago.

Charles Gibbs and Frank Swanson visited recently in
Lander at the home of Erny Swanson.

Elmer Raunio, Ernest Hekkanen, Lorraine Woolrich, Pat
Gratton, Mildred Gates and Alfred Bertagnolli, all students
at the University of Wyoming, spent the Easter vacation
with relatives here.

Miss Josephine Jiacoletti of Kemmerer was a recent vis¬
itor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Jiacoletti.

William Barwick has purchased the Union Garage, for¬
merly owned and operated by Wm. Van Valkenberg. Mr.
and Mrs. Van Valkenberg expect to remain in Superior
for several months.

Mrs. A. G. Hood recently returned home from Denver
where she was called by the illness of her mother, Mrs.
Kessner. Mrs. Kessner was greatly improved in health when
Mrs. Hood returned home.

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wales visited relatives in Dia-
mondville, Sunday, March 28.

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A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Gibson Gillilan,
Monday, April 5.

Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Walsh and family have moved to
Rock Springs to make their home.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Toth have moved to Rock Springs
where Mr. Toth has been employed by the Ford Garage.

Mr. and Mrs. George Tully are the proud parents of a
baby boy, born at the Hanna Hospital.

Mrs. James Finch, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Smith and son,
Louis, and Mrs. George Veitch and son, Herbert, attended
the funeral of Mrs. Ellen Parr, at Rock Springs.

John Roam spent a few days in Cheyenne, where he
went to consult medical aid.

Hanna

Joe Jones returned from Rochester, Minnesota,' where he
had been for medical treatment.

Miss Evelyn Brindley, a teacher in the Savery School,
spent Easter Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh
Brindley.

Mr. and Mrs. John B. Hughes and son, Gordon, of Reli¬
ance, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Ford on Easter
Sunday.

Mrs. William Lowe and children, of Winton, visited with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lucas for a few days.

Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Owens are the proud parents of
a son, born at the Hanna Hospital on March 28.

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Lee are receiving congratulations
on the arrival of a baby daughter born at the Hanna Hos¬
pital on April 4.

The members of the Bible Class and teachers of the
Methodist Sunday School entertained at a tea at the Com¬
munity Hall on March 23 in honor of Mrs. I. B. Wood, of
Greeley, Colorado. Mrs. Martha Woolsey very graciously
presided at the tea table.

The wedding of Miss Marian Milliken and James Clegg,
both of Hanna, was solemnized at Fort Collins, Colorado,
March 31, with I. A. Sarchet performing the ceremony.
The bride wore blue taffeta with a corsage of tea roses,
and was accompanied by Miss Bessie Clegg, sister of the
groom, who wore rose crepe. John F. Milliken, the bride’s
brother, was the groom’s best man. Mrs. Clegg is the
eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Milliken, and
was employed as clerk at the Union Pacific Store. Mr.
Clegg is the son of Mrs. William Clegg, and is employed
by The Union Pacific Coal Company. The couple will
make their home in Hanna.

The Pythian Sisters honored Mrs. James Clegg with a
miscellaneous shower after the regular meeting on Mon¬
day, April 5, when she received many beautiful and useful
gifts.

The community was shocked by the accidental death
of J. N. Glad, who was shot by a supposedly unloaded
gun in Laramie on April 4. Mr. Glad, who was 32 years
old, was born in Hanna, where he had lived most of his
life. He was married to Miss Hazel Mickelson, of Lara¬
mie, two years ago. They had made their home in Hanna,
where Mr. Glad was employed in No. 4 Mine. Funeral serv¬
ices were held in Hanna on April 7, and interment made in
Hanna cemetery. He leaves to mourn his passing his wife,
one sister, Mrs. Floyd Fosdick, and one brother, Neil
Glad, all of Hanna.

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^^room

Dee Zimmerman, Resident En¬
gine r at Winton Mines, has been
named Assistant Foreman of No. 3

_1 at Winton, effective March 16th, and

has been succeeded by Frank P. Lebar.

Melvin A. Sharp, Foreman, Winton No. 3, has been ap¬
pointed Research and Planning Engineer at Rock Springs,
effective March 16th.

Due to plenty of work in the Engineering Department,
two new faces are seen, namely, J. G. McKnight, Drafts¬
man, and Robert G. Couch, Mining Engineer.

Mr. Daniel Harrington, Department of the Interior, Bu¬
reau of Mines, Washington, D. C., spent several days in the
city during April seeking information as to safety in our
mines. He met many old Wyoming friends and made sev¬
eral new acquaintances while here.

Wm. Redshaw, Roundup, Montana, Manager of the coal
properties of the Megeath interests, visited his old haunts
here for several days. “Bill” “looked in the pink.”

His many old friends will be gratified to know that “Jim ’
Libby is on the road to recovery. He has had a long siege
and we are all pulling for him.

The Company has opened a new store at 22 K Street
for the sale of refrigerators, washers, electric ranges, elec¬
trical appliances of all sorts.

Mr. J. Monroe Campbell, Field Representative of Amer¬
ican National Red Cross, St. Louis, Missouri, was a caller
at the General Offices. Incidentally, he said Wyoming’s per
cent of enrollees would bear watching—nearing the top.

Have your Kodslc Woflc here

Vicars Motor Co.

and at the end of the month we will
furnish free one enlargement of

your best fish picture.

Buick • Pontiac '
G.M.C. Trucks

COTTAGE ^

CArt

STUDIO

Phone 207-W Rock Springs

Come up and A. ST. CROIX

pay a call Prop.

May, 1937

Employes’ Magazine

221

^^Passing

Moments**

“Moments of Opportunity’’

are Constantly in the Passing

. . a substantial bank
account will enable
you to take instant
advantage of them

. . have yours at

ROCK SPRINGS NATIONAL RANK

ROCK SPRINGS, WYOMING

. . and Profit by Our Co-operation

Every Dollar Spent
for Electric Service

is a dollar spent for additional com¬
fort, convenience and leisure ....

SOUTHERN WYOMING UTILITIES COMPANY

Phone 901 Rock Springs, Wyoming

222

Employes' Magazine

May, 1937

H O W A R D’S

Corner So. Front and C Streets
Rock Springs, Wyo.

Good Things to Eat

The Best Place in the City.

^ock Springs^ lor al Shop

Established 1921
Mrs. J. S. Salmon, Proprietor
205 C Street—Rock Springs

Cut Flowers and Plants

For All Occasions

Leading Florist of the District
GIVE US A CALL PHONE 61

WESTERN CAFE

403 North Front Street Phone 785

Air Conditioned # Up-to-date

QUALITY FOODS
REASONABLE PRICES
Superior Fountain Service

Meals at all hours »« day and night

T. Seddon TaliaFerro^ Jr.

ATTORN EY

Rock Springs, Wyoming

Owners Report

DODGE SAVES

Up to 6 Barrels of Gas in a Year

Switch to DODGE and Save Money

McCurtaiii Motor Co.

Phone 601 Rock Springs

Mother’s Day - May Ninth

Appropriate Greeting Cards
for the occasion.

She will duly appreciate a box
of finest chocolates.
WHITMAX^S - - SAYLOR’S

Telephone III THUMS 447 So. Front St.

Rock Springs Laundry
& Cleaning Company

SMITH BROS., Props.

120 J St., Rock Springs Phone 18

Let us clean your
CURTAINS and BLANKETS

We also Solicit your Family
Cleaning and Pressing

E. L. WETZEL

CLEANING AND PRESSING OF
FINE GLOTHES SOLIGITED

TELEPHONE 158

-. ROCK SPRINGS _

May, 1937

Employes’ Magazine

■ 223

OF ROCK SPRINGS
Rock Springs, Wyoming

•

Your Account, Large or Small,
Receives Our Careful Attention

•

48 Years

of Banking Service
in this Community.

Member of the First Security Corporation
System.

Largest Intermountain Banking Organization.

NORTH SIDE
STATE BANK

^^The Peoples Bank”

GENERAL BANKING
INSURANCE
FOREIGN EXCHANGE
STEAMSHIP AGENCY
TRUSTS

The New V- 8

Coupe $685.00 • Sedan $700.00

Fully equipped and
delivered at your door

CRIPPA MOTOR CO.

204 Elk Street Phone 26

Rock Springs, Wyoming

GRAND CAFE

Opposite U. P. Depot

Rock Springs’ Oldest Cafe with
Latest Improvements.

Steaks Our Specialty

Fountain Service
Where Particular People Dine.

Plumbing and Heating Dealers in Plumbing

Contractors Supplies

Rock Springs Plumbing
Company

H. J. DeFralis A. W. Nisbet

-PROPRIETORS-

324 Grant Street Phone 160

ROCK SPRINGS, WYO.

FIRE CHIEF

GASOLINE

STARTS

47 %

FASTER

Than the United States
Government Requires
For Its Emergency Equipment.

For Sale by All

The Union Pacific Coal Company Stores

NEW "SUPER. DUTY"

FRIGIDAIRE

'¥I7e” METER ■ MISER

FIVE-YEAR

Sold on Easy Payments

Protection

as low as

35 Cents a Day.

against service expense

•

on the

PRICES FROM

FRIGIDAIRE

mechanical unit.

H29®?

See Genuine FRIGIDAIRE Before Buying an Electric Ice Box

THE UNION PACIFIC COAL COMPANY STORES

Rock Springs - Reliance - Winton - Superior - Hanna
"Where Your Dollar Is a Big Boy All the Time”

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